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IAN

3 letters - 3 clues in this pilot

IAN is a 3-letter crossword answer with 3 clues in this pilot. Across those clues it has 542 usages in the xd corpus, most recently in 2026. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.

The answer

IAN

IAN

3Letters
3Clues in pilot
542Combined xd usages
2026Most recent year

Combined usages add the xd usage counts of every clue below. Frequency figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Every clue for IAN in this pilot

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  • Author Fleming - used 275 times across 50 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Actor McKellen - used 168 times across 35 distinct years, most recently in 2026
  • Writer Fleming - used 99 times across 31 distinct years, most recently in 2026

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