Charley horse
The crossword clue "Charley horse" is answered by CRAMP, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Every other clue in this collection answered by CRAMP, most used first.
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