-- number
The crossword clue "-- number" is answered by SERIAL, a 6-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SERIAL
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SERIAL answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SERIAL
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- Continuing story - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Soap opera - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Soap opera, e.g. - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Ongoing story - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Published in installments - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Soap, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Kind of number - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Ongoing drama - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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