German sub
The crossword clue "German sub" is answered by UBOAT, a 5-letter entry. Used 88 times across 32 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
UBOAT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UBOAT answer page.
Used 88 times across 32 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 18 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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