Nine inches
The crossword clue "Nine inches" is answered by SPAN, a 4-letter entry. Used 57 times across 37 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1936. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
SPAN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPAN answer page.
Used 57 times across 37 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1936. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPAN
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPAN, most used first.
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