Contrived
The crossword clue "Contrived" is answered by STAGED, a 6-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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STAGED
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STAGED answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1967. 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 STAGED
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- Put on - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Put on, as a play - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Not impromptu - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Produced, as a play - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Not spontaneous - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
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