Tones down
The crossword clue "Tones down" is answered by MUTES, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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MUTES
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Used 13 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for MUTES
Every other clue in this collection answered by MUTES, most used first.
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