"Desire Under the ___"
The crossword clue ""Desire Under the ___"" is answered by ELMS, a 4-letter entry. Used 81 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1945. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus.
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ELMS
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Used 81 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1945. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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