U-shaped river bend
The crossword clue "U-shaped river bend" is answered by OXBOW, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OXBOW
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OXBOW answer page.
Used 18 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OXBOW
Every other clue in this collection answered by OXBOW, most used first.
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