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Excess

Answer: PLETHORA - 8 letters

The crossword clue "Excess" is answered by PLETHORA, a 8-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.

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PLETHORA

PLETHORA

8 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLETHORA answer page.

7Times used
5Distinct years
2005Most recent year
4Publications

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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