Windmill blades
The crossword clue "Windmill blades" is answered by VANES, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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VANES
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Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1998. 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 VANES
Every other clue in this collection answered by VANES, most used first.
- Wind indicators - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Barn toppers - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Weathercocks. - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
- Windmill parts - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
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