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Abstains from

Answer: AVOIDS - 6 letters

The crossword clue "Abstains from" is answered by AVOIDS, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.

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AVOIDS

AVOIDS

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AVOIDS answer page.

7Times used
6Distinct years
2015Most recent year
5Publications

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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