Try for a fly
The crossword clue "Try for a fly" is answered by SWAT, a 4-letter entry. Used 27 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus.
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SWAT
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Used 27 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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