Staircase support
The crossword clue "Staircase support" is answered by NEWEL, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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NEWEL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NEWEL answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NEWEL
Every other clue in this collection answered by NEWEL, most used first.
- Staircase post - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Stairway post - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Stair post - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
- Banister post - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Banister attachment - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
- Handrail support - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
- Handrail post - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Kind of post - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
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- Tech support callers - USERS, used 24 times
- Injured arm support - SLING, used 23 times
- Staircase parts - STEPS, used 23 times
- Support - BRACE, used 19 times
- Two-legged support - BIPOD, used 19 times
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