Former chess champ Mikhail
The crossword clue "Former chess champ Mikhail" is answered by TAL, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
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Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1982. 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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