Ersatz butter
The crossword clue "Ersatz butter" is answered by OLEO, a 4-letter entry. Used 68 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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OLEO
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Used 68 times across 29 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OLEO
Every other clue in this collection answered by OLEO, most used first.
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- Butterine - used 55 times, most recently in 2014
Related clues
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- Clarified butter - GHEE, used 51 times
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