Used a shovel
The crossword clue "Used a shovel" is answered by DUG, a 3-letter entry. Used 49 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
DUG
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Used 49 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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