It turns red in acid
The crossword clue "It turns red in acid" is answered by LITMUS, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
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LITMUS
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Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1998. 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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