Ward off
The crossword clue "Ward off" is answered by PARRY, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1942. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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PARRY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PARRY answer page.
Used 17 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1942. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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