Half a picker-upper
The crossword clue "Half a picker-upper" is answered by TONG, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. 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
TONG
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TONG answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TONG
Every other clue in this collection answered by TONG, most used first.
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Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
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