Bluffer's ploy
The crossword clue "Bluffer's ploy" is answered by RAISE, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RAISE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RAISE answer page.
Used 17 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1994. 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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Every other clue in this collection answered by RAISE, most used first.
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