First ed.
The crossword clue "First ed." is answered by ORIG, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ORIG
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORIG answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ORIG
Every other clue in this collection answered by ORIG, most used first.
- Not a copy: Abbr. - used 52 times, most recently in 2023
- Not a dup. - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Etymology abbr. - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Not an imit. - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
Related clues
Clues in this collection 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.
- First-rate - AONE, used 274 times
- First place - EDEN, used 215 times
- First-class - AONE, used 143 times
- First name in scat - ELLA, used 140 times
- First victim - ABEL, used 131 times
- Jacob's first wife - LEAH, used 126 times
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