Major arteries
The crossword clue "Major arteries" is answered by AORTAE, a 6-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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AORTAE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AORTAE answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1985. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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- Blood lines - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
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