Great Leap Forward leader
The crossword clue "Great Leap Forward leader" is answered by MAO, a 3-letter entry. Used 22 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
MAO
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Used 22 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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