British carbine
The crossword clue "British carbine" is answered by STEN, a 4-letter entry. Used 60 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
STEN
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Used 60 times across 30 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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