Light submachine gun
The crossword clue "Light submachine gun" is answered by STEN, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
STEN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STEN answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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