One in distress
The crossword clue "One in distress" is answered by DAMSEL, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 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
DAMSEL
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DAMSEL answer page.
Used 8 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.
Other clues for DAMSEL
Every other clue in this collection answered by DAMSEL, most used first.
- Maiden - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
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