Pen's mate
The crossword clue "Pen's mate" is answered by COB, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1986. 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
COB
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COB answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1986. 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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