"Able was ___ I saw Elba"
The crossword clue ""Able was ___ I saw Elba"" is answered by IERE, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
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IERE
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Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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- "Able was ___..." - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- "... ___ saw Elba" - EREI, used 222 times
- "That was close!" - PHEW, used 117 times
- "When I was ___ . . . " - ALAD, used 96 times
- Was aware of - KNEW, used 70 times
- Was in debt - OWED, used 69 times
- Was in the red - OWED, used 68 times
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