Ball of yarn
The crossword clue "Ball of yarn" is answered by CLEW, a 4-letter entry. Used 50 times across 34 distinct years; most recently in 2015. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
CLEW
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CLEW answer page.
Used 50 times across 34 distinct years; most recently in 2015. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- SKEIN (12 uses in xd)
- CLEWS (1 uses in xd)
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