Explosive experiment

The answer

ATEST

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Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• NTEST (9 uses in xd)
• HTEST (2 uses in xd)

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Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Explosive stuff - NITRO, used 37 times
• Experiment - TRIAL, used 23 times
• Explosive liquid, briefly - NITRO, used 21 times
• Explosive, for short - NITRO, used 19 times
• Explosive trial - NTEST, used 17 times
• Explosive liquid - NITRO, used 16 times

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