Preparatory stage
The crossword clue "Preparatory stage" is answered by LEADUP, a 6-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LEADUP
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEADUP answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. 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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- Stage remarks. - ASIDES, used 8 times
- Beginning stage - EMBRYO, used 7 times
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