Lively Irish dance
The crossword clue "Lively Irish dance" is answered by JIG, a 3-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
JIG
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the JIG answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for JIG
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- Lively dance - used 51 times, most recently in 2025
- Irish dance - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Springy dance - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- "The ___ is up!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Dance - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Dublin dance - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Irish folk dance - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- It may be up - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
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