Support beam
The crossword clue "Support beam" is answered by JOIST, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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JOIST
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Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1975. 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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Other clues for JOIST
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- Ceiling support - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Floor support - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
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