Applies sloppily
The crossword clue "Applies sloppily" is answered by DAUBS, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2010. 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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DAUBS
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Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2010. 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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