Short surplice.
The crossword clue "Short surplice." is answered by COTTA, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 1999; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
COTTA
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Used 17 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 1999; first recorded in 1955. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for COTTA
Every other clue in this collection answered by COTTA, most used first.
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