Harden
The crossword clue "Harden" is answered by OSSIFY, a 6-letter entry. Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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OSSIFY
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Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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- Turn to bone - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Harden into bone - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
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