Rains cats and dogs
The crossword clue "Rains cats and dogs" is answered by TEEMS, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1991. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
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TEEMS
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Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1991. 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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Other clues for TEEMS
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- Swarms (with) - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
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- Overflows - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Is abundant - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Crawls (with) - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Is rife - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Is rife (with) - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Swarms, as with life - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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