Widespread
The crossword clue "Widespread" is answered by EPIDEMIC, a 8-letter entry. Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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EPIDEMIC
8 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EPIDEMIC answer page.
Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for EPIDEMIC
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- Widespread outbreak - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
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