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Oil cartel

Answer: OPEC - 4 letters

The crossword clue "Oil cartel" is answered by OPEC, a 4-letter entry. Used 253 times across 42 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the pilot data itself.

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OPEC

OPEC

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OPEC answer page.

253Times used
42Distinct years
2026Most recent year
18Publications

Used 253 times across 42 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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