Pinch
The crossword clue "Pinch" is answered by NIP, a 3-letter entry. Used 87 times across 45 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
NIP
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NIP answer page.
Used 87 times across 45 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1924. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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