"Born Free" lioness
The crossword clue ""Born Free" lioness" is answered by ELSA, a 4-letter entry. Used 212 times across 38 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
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ELSA
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Used 212 times across 38 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 24 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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