Answer: SHIRE
SHIRE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 72 times.
Referring Clues:
- Queen's county
 - Surrey, e.g.
 - Hobbits' home, with "The"
 - Cornwall, for one
 - "Rocky" co-star Talia
 - English locale
 - English county
 - English place name suffix
 - Talia of "Rocky"
 - Bilbo's home
 - British draft horse
 - Common English place name ending
 - County, in Britain
 - Avon or Cornwall
 - Actress Talia
 - Stallone's costar in "Rocky"
 - British county
 - Hobbits' region
 - U.S.: county :: U.K. : __
 - Talia of "The Godfather"
 - Actress in the "Godfather" movies
 - Frequent Stallone costar
 - County overseas
 - Hobbits' home
 - Pacino's sister in ''The Godfather''
 - One of about 40 in England
 - Hobbit's home
 - ''Rocky'' actress
 - Actress in the first five ''Rocky'' films
 - British breed of draft horse
 - Stallone's multiple-movie wife
 - "Rocky" actress
 - Actress in the first five "Rocky" films
 - U.S.: county :: U.K. : ___
 - Pacino's sister in "The Godfather"
 - York and Lincoln follower
 - County abroad
 - "Rocky" actress Talia
 - Stallone's 'Rocky' co-star
 - Talia of 'Rocky'
 - 'Rocky' actress Talia
 - Oxford attachment?
 - Stallone's "Rocky" costar
 - "Lord of the Rings" setting, with "the"
 - County counterpart, in Canterbury
 - County, in England
 - English division
 - Middle-earth region, with "the"
 - Stallone's five-time co-star Talia
 - Sussex or Essex
 - Overseas county
 - Last name of "Rocky" films
 - Powerful draft horse
 - Hobbit's homeland
 - Essex, for one
 - British district
 - York or Nottingham
 - Frodo's home, with "the"
 - Ending with Oxford or Cambridge
 - Talia of "Rocky" movies
 - English subdivision
 - English county (it can be added to the ends of this puzzle's seven longest answers)
 - ___-reeve: early name for a sheriff
 - Zambezi feeder
 - Suffix in many English county names
 - "Rocky" star Talia
 - Hobbits' homeland
 - Nottingham or York
 - Hobbit-at, with "the"?
 - Word in British placenames
 - "Do you remember the ___, Mr. Frodo?": Sam Gamgee
 - County, across the pond
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 27, 2025
 - New York Times - March 27, 2025
 - LA Times - September 15, 2024
 - New York Times - April 09, 2023
 - LA Times - May 14, 2022
 - LA Times - December 31, 2021
 - LA Times - April 16, 2021
 - Universal - July 18, 2020
 - Netword - March 22, 2020
 - New York Times - November 12, 2019
 - Netword - October 17, 2019
 - Universal - October 05, 2019
 - LA Times - September 08, 2019
 - New York Times - June 17, 2019
 - Universal - May 09, 2019
 - LA Times - September 22, 2018
 - King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - September 16, 2018
 - LA Times - April 14, 2018
 - Netword - April 08, 2018
 - New York Times - March 03, 2018
 
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