Knotty situation
The crossword clue "Knotty situation" is answered by NODUS, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1988. 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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NODUS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NODUS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1988. 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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