Gaping hole
The crossword clue "Gaping hole" is answered by ABYSS, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ABYSS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABYSS answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ABYSS
Every other clue in this collection answered by ABYSS, most used first.
- Bottomless pit - used 161 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep chasm - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
- Chasm - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Bottomless chasm - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Vast chasm - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Deep gulf - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Bottomless gulf - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep pit - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Void - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep hole - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Immeasurable chasm - used 13 times, most recently in 2016
- Deep space - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Yawning gulf - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Immeasurable depth - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Deep void - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Great depression - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Unfathomable chasm - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- It's unfathomable - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Ocean depths. - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Great gulf - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Hole ___. - INONE, used 76 times
- Roll with a hole - BAGEL, used 34 times
- ___ the hole - ACEIN, used 31 times
- Hole in the head - SINUS, used 28 times
- Watering hole - OASIS, used 21 times
- Desert watering hole - OASIS, used 19 times
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