Shots beyond the target.
The crossword clue "Shots beyond the target." is answered by OVERS, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1973; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
OVERS
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Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1973; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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