Dervish
The crossword clue "Dervish" is answered by FAKIR, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FAKIR
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FAKIR answer page.
Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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