Plant used to make tequila

The answer

AGAVE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AGAVE answer page.

Used 16 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• BLUEAGAVE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for AGAVE

Every other clue in this collection answered by AGAVE, most used first.

• Tequila source - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
• Century plant - used 74 times, most recently in 2015
• Tequila plant - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Desert plant - used 23 times, most recently in 2017
• Yucca's kin - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• Mescal source - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Spiny plant - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Desert plant used to make tequila - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Mojave plant - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Century plant, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Tequila ingredient - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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• Make sense - ADDUP, used 137 times

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