Irritate
The crossword clue "Irritate" is answered by GRATE, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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GRATE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GRATE answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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