"-- folly to be wise"

The answer

TIS

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TIS answer page.

Used 26 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1966. 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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