First public appearance
The crossword clue "First public appearance" is answered by DEBUT, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1956. 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
DEBUT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEBUT answer page.
Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DEBUT
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEBUT, most used first.
- First appearance - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Coming-out - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- First performance - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Premiere - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
- Opening night - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Introduction to the public - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Come out - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Introduction - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Premiere performance - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Social event. - used 7 times, most recently in 1992
- First showing - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
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- First name in cosmetics - ESTEE, used 242 times
- India's first prime minister - NEHRU, used 149 times
- First Greek letter - ALPHA, used 108 times
- First-stringers - ATEAM, used 107 times
- First Hebrew letter - ALEPH, used 90 times
- Public persona - IMAGE, used 80 times
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