Before surgery
The crossword clue "Before surgery" is answered by PREOP, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PREOP
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PREOP answer page.
Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PREOP
Every other clue in this collection answered by PREOP, most used first.
- Before surgery, informally - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Before surgery, briefly - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Before surgery, for short - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Hospital prep area - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Hospital area, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Hospital area - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
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