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Only fifteen words begin with X, and two letters share most of the second box.
E takes the second box in seven of the fifteen and Y in seven, which is fourteen between them. Everything else there holds a single word each.
XEROX is the one entry most people would produce. XENON is reachable if you think of the gas. Past those the page is XEBEC, XENIA, XERIC, XERUS, XYLAN, XYLEM and a run of similar terms, none of which would occur to you mid puzzle.
XYLEM is the most useful of the Y branch, being a plant tissue that turns up in school biology. XYLOL and XYLYL are chemical terms and XYSTS is an architectural one.
I fills the fourth box in four of the fifteen, more than any other letter, and C closes four words. With a page this short those are the only figures worth acting on.
In practice you confirm one letter and read the remaining entries. There is no branch structure to work through.
On this page it usually is, since it is the only entry in general use. XENON is the realistic alternative.
English almost never opens a word with X. Fifteen entries is everything the language offers at five letters, and most arrived from Greek.
A small three masted sailing ship. It sits in the E branch with XENON and XERIC and is the one people most often meet in crosswords.