Started the bidding
The crossword clue "Started the bidding" is answered by OPENED, a 6-letter entry. Used 24 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
OPENED
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OPENED answer page.
Used 24 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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