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CRUEL

5 letters - 2 clues in this collection

CRUEL is a 5-letter crossword answer with 2 clues in this collection. Across those clues it has 47 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.

The answer

CRUEL

CRUEL

5Letters
2Clues in collection
47Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year

Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Every clue for CRUEL in this collection

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  • Merciless - used 26 times across 23 distinct years, most recently in 2024
  • Heartless - used 21 times across 15 distinct years, most recently in 2026

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