Candles
The crossword clue "Candles" is answered by TAPERS, a 6-letter entry. Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 1997; first recorded in 1945. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TAPERS
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAPERS answer page.
Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 1997; first recorded in 1945. 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 TAPERS
Every other clue in this collection answered by TAPERS, most used first.
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- Becomes narrower - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Narrows gradually - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Narrows - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Gets narrower - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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