River to the Severn

The answer

AVON

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AVON answer page.

Used 26 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• WYE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for AVON

Every other clue in this collection answered by AVON, most used first.

• Stratford's river - used 175 times, most recently in 2026
• Shakespeare's river - used 138 times, most recently in 2026
• Bard's river - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• The Bard's river - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• English river - used 63 times, most recently in 2010
• Stratford-upon-___ - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Mary Kay rival - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Mary Kay competitor - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Rugby's river. - used 32 times, most recently in 2018
• Calling company? - used 31 times, most recently in 2012
• Bath's river - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
• "___ calling!" - used 27 times, most recently in 2018
• Bristol's river. - used 25 times, most recently in 2015
• Shakespeare's stream - used 25 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
• In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
• On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
• From the top - ANEW, used 355 times
• Spill the beans - BLAB, used 313 times
• Russian river - URAL, used 294 times

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