Penny-in-the-wishing-well sound
The crossword clue "Penny-in-the-wishing-well sound" is answered by PLOP, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1998. 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
PLOP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLOP answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PLOP
Every other clue in this collection answered by PLOP, most used first.
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- Tumultuous sit-down - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
Related clues
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