Take to the cleaners
The crossword clue "Take to the cleaners" is answered by FLEECE, a 6-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
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FLEECE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLEECE answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. 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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