British prison
The crossword clue "British prison" is answered by GAOL, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 1997; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GAOL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GAOL answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 1997; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GAOL
Every other clue in this collection answered by GAOL, most used first.
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