Of direct descent
The crossword clue "Of direct descent" is answered by LINEAL, a 6-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1972. 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
LINEAL
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LINEAL answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for LINEAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by LINEAL, most used first.
- Hereditary - used 30 times, most recently in 2022
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- Climber's descent - RAPPEL, used 7 times
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