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Rink surface

Answer: ICE - 3 letters

The crossword clue "Rink surface" is answered by ICE, a 3-letter entry. Used 96 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 15 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.

The answer

ICE

ICE

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ICE answer page.

96Times used
30Distinct years
2026Most recent year
15Publications

Used 96 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 15 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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