British ref. work
The crossword clue "British ref. work" is answered by OED, a 3-letter entry. Used 92 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.
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Used 92 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1974. 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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Pilot clues 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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- British verb ending - ISE, used 103 times
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