List-shortening abbreviation
The crossword clue "List-shortening abbreviation" is answered by ETC, a 3-letter entry. Used 34 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ETC
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ETC answer page.
Used 34 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ETC
Every other clue in this collection answered by ETC, most used first.
- And so on: Abbr. - used 238 times, most recently in 2026
- And so forth: Abbr. - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
- And so on - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- And so forth - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Series-ending abbr. - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- And so on, for short - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Space-saving abbr. - used 39 times, most recently in 2024
- And so on, briefly - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- And more: Abbr. - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
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