Tender touches
The crossword clue "Tender touches" is answered by CARESSES, a 8-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2002; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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CARESSES
8 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CARESSES answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2002; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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