First lady before Mamie
The crossword clue "First lady before Mamie" is answered by BESS, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus.
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Used 21 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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