"Terrible" tsar

The answer

IVAN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IVAN answer page.

Used 50 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• IVANIV (1 uses in xd)

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