J. ___ Hoover
The crossword clue "J. ___ Hoover" is answered by EDGAR, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022. 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
EDGAR
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EDGAR answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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