"The ___ Sanction"
The crossword clue ""The ___ Sanction"" is answered by EIGER, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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EIGER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EIGER answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1992. 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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Other clues for EIGER
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- "The __ Sanction" (Eastwood film) - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Trevanian's "The _____ Sanction" - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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