Protect
The crossword clue "Protect" is answered by GUARD, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GUARD
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GUARD answer page.
Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1984. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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