Catches red-handed
The crossword clue "Catches red-handed" is answered by NAILS, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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NAILS
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Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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