Common ailments
The crossword clue "Common ailments" is answered by COLDS, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019. 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
COLDS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COLDS answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019. 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 COLDS
Every other clue in this collection answered by COLDS, most used first.
- Winter woes - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
- Nose woes - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Common maladies - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Less common - RARER, used 151 times
- "Common Sense" author - PAINE, used 62 times
- Not as common - RARER, used 41 times
- Common contraction - ARENT, used 40 times
- "Common Sense" writer - PAINE, used 37 times
- "Common Sense" pamphleteer - PAINE, used 25 times
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