"Billy Budd" captain
The crossword clue ""Billy Budd" captain" is answered by VERE, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
VERE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the VERE answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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