Inaugural ball, e.g.
The crossword clue "Inaugural ball, e.g." is answered by GALA, a 4-letter entry. Used 26 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
GALA
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GALA answer page.
Used 26 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1987. 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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