Road-gripping ability
The crossword clue "Road-gripping ability" is answered by TRACTION, a 8-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; 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
TRACTION
8 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TRACTION answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; 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.
Related clues
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