"Guilty" and "not guilty"
The crossword clue ""Guilty" and "not guilty"" is answered by PLEAS, a 5-letter entry. Used 41 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
PLEAS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLEAS answer page.
Used 41 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 17 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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