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Simpleton

Answer: DOLT - 4 letters

The crossword clue "Simpleton" is answered by DOLT, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.

The answer

DOLT

DOLT

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DOLT answer page.

8Times used
8Distinct years
2019Most recent year
5Publications

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019. 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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