Potting need
The crossword clue "Potting need" is answered by SOIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 36 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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Used 36 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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