___ oil
The crossword clue "___ oil" is answered by CASTOR, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CASTOR
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CASTOR answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for CASTOR
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- Pollux's twin - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
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