Use a divining rod
The crossword clue "Use a divining rod" is answered by DOWSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 105 times across 44 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 22 publications in the xd corpus.
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DOWSE
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Used 105 times across 44 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 22 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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