Unable to hold water
The crossword clue "Unable to hold water" is answered by HOLEY, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
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HOLEY
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Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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