Original
The crossword clue "Original" is answered by NOVEL, a 5-letter entry. Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NOVEL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOVEL answer page.
Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NOVEL
Every other clue in this collection answered by NOVEL, most used first.
- Work of fiction - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Book of fiction - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Fresh - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Unusual - used 13 times, most recently in 1995
- Writer's work - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Fictional work - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- New - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Unprecedented - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- It's a long story - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- More original - NEWER, used 14 times
- Hardly original - STALE, used 8 times
- Far from original - BANAL, used 7 times
- Not an original - REPRO, used 7 times
- George of the original "Star Trek" - TAKEI, used 6 times
- In its original form, as a movie - UNCUT, used 6 times
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