Telephone inventor
The crossword clue "Telephone inventor" is answered by BELL, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BELL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BELL answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BELL
Every other clue in this collection answered by BELL, most used first.
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- "Saved by the ___" - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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