Simpleton
The crossword clue "Simpleton" is answered by GOOSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2003; first recorded in 1972. 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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GOOSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GOOSE answer page.
Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2003; first recorded in 1972. 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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