Paleontologist's find
The crossword clue "Paleontologist's find" is answered by FOSSIL, a 6-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. 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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FOSSIL
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Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. 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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