Big pipes
The crossword clue "Big pipes" is answered by MAINS, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MAINS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MAINS answer page.
Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MAINS
Every other clue in this collection answered by MAINS, most used first.
- Conduits - used 14 times, most recently in 1992
- Water pipes - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Large water pipes - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Principal pipes - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Water carriers - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Water conduits - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
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