W. German city
The crossword clue "W. German city" is answered by ESSEN, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2003; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ESSEN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ESSEN answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2003; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- SOEST (1 uses in xd)
- UNNA (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ESSEN
Every other clue in this collection answered by ESSEN, most used first.
- Ruhr Valley city - used 155 times, most recently in 2026
- Ruhr city - used 141 times, most recently in 2024
- German steel city - used 97 times, most recently in 2026
- German industrial city - used 91 times, most recently in 2025
- City on the Ruhr - used 78 times, most recently in 2025
- German city - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Krupp Works city - used 39 times, most recently in 2018
- Big Bertha's birthplace - used 34 times, most recently in 2022
- City north of Cologne - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- German steel center - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Krupp Works site - used 17 times, most recently in 2002
- To eat: Ger. - used 17 times, most recently in 1997
- Birthplace of Big Bertha - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
- City in the Ruhr valley - used 13 times, most recently in 2011
- City near Oberhausen - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- German industrial center - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Industrial city of Germany - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Ruhr hub - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
- Ruhr industrial center - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
- City near Cologne - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- West German city - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Chief city of the Ruhr. - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- German city on the Ruhr - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Krupp city. - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Ruhr metropolis. - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- German steel town - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Krupp's city - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Ruhr industrial hub - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Ruhr Valley hub - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Site of the Krupp works - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Steel city of Germany - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- German industrial hub - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Museum Folkwang city - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Steel city - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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