"Able was I ___ saw Elba"
The crossword clue ""Able was I ___ saw Elba"" is answered by EREI, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1963. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus.
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EREI
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Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1963. 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 EREI
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- "... ___ saw Elba" - used 222 times, most recently in 2026
- Part of a popular palindrome - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- "Able was I ___ . . . " - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
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