Coal mines.
The crossword clue "Coal mines." is answered by PITS, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PITS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PITS answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1950. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PITS
Every other clue in this collection answered by PITS, most used first.
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- Cherry centers - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Absolute worst - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Peach parts - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Peach stones - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Stones - used 9 times, most recently in 2007
- Absolute worst, with "the" - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Quarries - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Olive discards - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Orchestra areas - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Plum centers - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- German coal region - SAAR, used 29 times
- Coal scuttles - HODS, used 28 times
- Coal carriers - HODS, used 23 times
- Coal source - MINE, used 22 times
- Coal stratum - SEAM, used 18 times
- Coal carrier - TRAM, used 17 times
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