___ acid
The crossword clue "___ acid" is answered by FOLIC, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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FOLIC
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FOLIC answer page.
Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FOLIC
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- Kind of acid - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
- ___ acid (B vitamin) - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
Related clues
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- ___ acid - AMINO, used 177 times
- Acid type - AMINO, used 134 times
- Kind of acid - AMINO, used 116 times
- Type of acid - AMINO, used 60 times
- Acid in proteins - AMINO, used 44 times
- Protein-building acid - AMINO, used 32 times
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