Col.'s superior
The crossword clue "Col.'s superior" is answered by GEN, a 3-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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GEN
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Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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