Ran in the wash
The crossword clue "Ran in the wash" is answered by BLED, a 4-letter entry. Used 102 times across 28 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 26 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
BLED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BLED answer page.
Used 102 times across 28 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 26 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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