Mail-order pioneer
The crossword clue "Mail-order pioneer" is answered by SEARS, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SEARS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SEARS answer page.
Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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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