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MAIN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAIN answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MAIN

Every other clue in this collection answered by MAIN, most used first.

• Primary - used 148 times, most recently in 2026
• Principal - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Common street name - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Chief - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Most important - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Water carrier - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Popular street name - used 18 times, most recently in 2015
• Central - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Water pipe - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Conduit - used 11 times, most recently in 1996
• Cardinal - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Water conduit - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Big water pipe - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Key - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Foremost - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Kind of a drag? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Major water pipe - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Predominant - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Most populous continent - ASIA, used 61 times
• Where most people live - ASIA, used 45 times
• Significant periods - ERAS, used 40 times
• Most populous Hawaiian island - OAHU, used 32 times
• Significant times - ERAS, used 31 times
• Significant stretches - ERAS, used 25 times

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