Use a ray gun
The crossword clue "Use a ray gun" is answered by ZAP, a 3-letter entry. Used 22 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus.
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ZAP
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Used 22 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ZAP
Every other clue in this collection answered by ZAP, most used first.
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