"___ better to have loved and lost ..."
The crossword clue ""___ better to have loved and lost ..."" is answered by TIS, a 3-letter entry. Used 27 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
TIS
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Used 27 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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