Rains cats and dogs
The crossword clue "Rains cats and dogs" is answered by POURS, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus.
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POURS
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Used 15 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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