He hit 61 in '61
The crossword clue "He hit 61 in '61" is answered by MARIS, a 5-letter entry. Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus.
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MARIS
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Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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