Take in or let out
The crossword clue "Take in or let out" is answered by ALTER, a 5-letter entry. Used 48 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ALTER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALTER answer page.
Used 48 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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