"Pinafore" designation
The crossword clue ""Pinafore" designation" is answered by HMS, a 3-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2000. 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
HMS
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HMS answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HMS
Every other clue in this collection answered by HMS, most used first.
- "___ Pinafore" - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Pinafore letters - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Royal Navy designation - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Bounty letters - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Letters at sea - used 10 times, most recently in 2009
- Royal Navy letters - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Pinafore's letters - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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