___-nest (hoax)
The crossword clue "___-nest (hoax)" is answered by MARES, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2000; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MARES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MARES answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2000; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MARES
Every other clue in this collection answered by MARES, most used first.
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