Shakespearean contraction
The crossword clue "Shakespearean contraction" is answered by TWERE, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TWERE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TWERE answer page.
Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. 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 TWERE
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- Quaint contraction - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Shakespearean forest - ARDEN, used 72 times
- Shakespearean sprite - ARIEL, used 60 times
- Common contraction - ARENT, used 40 times
- Muscle contraction - SPASM, used 28 times
- Shakespearean teen - ROMEO, used 18 times
- Involuntary contraction - SPASM, used 17 times
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