"When ___ a lad . . . "
The crossword clue ""When ___ a lad . . . "" is answered by IWAS, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
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IWAS
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Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2006; first recorded in 1960. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Every other clue in this collection answered by IWAS, most used first.
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