Curses
The crossword clue "Curses" is answered by BANES, a 5-letter entry. Used 19 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1976. 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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BANES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BANES answer page.
Used 19 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1976. 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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