Build up a nest egg
The crossword clue "Build up a nest egg" is answered by SAVE, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
SAVE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SAVE answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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