Young herring.
The crossword clue "Young herring." is answered by BRIT, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 1997; first recorded in 1942. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BRIT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BRIT answer page.
Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 1997; first recorded in 1942. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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