___-retentive
The crossword clue "___-retentive" is answered by ANAL, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ANAL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANAL answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANAL
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