Halley's ___
The crossword clue "Halley's ___" is answered by COMET, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
COMET
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COMET answer page.
Used 14 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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