Since Hector was --
The crossword clue "Since Hector was --" is answered by APUP, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
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Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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- Was in debt - OWED, used 69 times
- Was in the red - OWED, used 68 times
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