Homeless child
The crossword clue "Homeless child" is answered by WAIF, a 4-letter entry. Used 31 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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Used 31 times across 19 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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