Dog bane
The crossword clue "Dog bane" is answered by FLEAS, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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FLEAS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLEAS answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FLEAS
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- Dog's bane - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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