Smoking gun
The crossword clue "Smoking gun" is answered by PROOF, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PROOF
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PROOF answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PROOF
Every other clue in this collection answered by PROOF, most used first.
- Evidence - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Geometry class challenge - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Validation - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Geometry-class exercise - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Smoking gun, so to speak - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Verification - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
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- Carrying a gun - ARMED, used 27 times
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- "___ a gun!" - SONOF, used 14 times
- Gun-toting - ARMED, used 14 times
- Gun, as an engine - REVUP, used 11 times
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