Plaintive piece
The crossword clue "Plaintive piece" is answered by ELEGY, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ELEGY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELEGY answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for ELEGY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELEGY, most used first.
- Mournful poem - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Plaintive poem - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
- Poem of lament - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Poetic lament - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Sorrowful poem - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Melancholy poem - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Sorrowful song - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Sad poem - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Thomas Gray work - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Lament - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
- Shelley's "Adonais," e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Somber poem - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Pensive poem - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Somber verse - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Funeral song - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Melancholy verse - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Song of lament - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Lamentation - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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