Rains hard
The crossword clue "Rains hard" is answered by POURS, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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POURS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the POURS answer page.
Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for POURS
Every other clue in this collection answered by POURS, most used first.
- Rains cats and dogs - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Comes down in buckets - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Decants - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
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