Black varnish
The crossword clue "Black varnish" is answered by JAPAN, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
JAPAN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the JAPAN answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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