Bench-clearing brawls
The crossword clue "Bench-clearing brawls" is answered by MELEES, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 2000. 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
MELEES
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MELEES answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MELEES
Every other clue in this collection answered by MELEES, most used first.
- Free-for-alls - used 31 times, most recently in 2023
- Brawls - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Donnybrooks - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Fracases - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Rows - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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