Type of gun.
The crossword clue "Type of gun." is answered by STEN, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1976; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 1 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 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1976; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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