Bomb of a bomb
The crossword clue "Bomb of a bomb" is answered by DUD, a 3-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
DUD
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Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Every other clue in this collection answered by DUD, most used first.
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