Killer whales
The crossword clue "Killer whales" is answered by ORCS, a 4-letter entry. Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2001; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ORCS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORCS answer page.
Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2001; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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