Popular pain reliever
The crossword clue "Popular pain reliever" is answered by ALEVE, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1999. 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
ALEVE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALEVE answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1999. 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 ALEVE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ALEVE, most used first.
- Advil alternative - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Tylenol alternative - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Pain relief brand - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Bayer brand - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Naproxen brand - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Tylenol rival - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Advil competitor - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Advil rival - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Tylenol competitor - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Motrin alternative - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Motrin competitor - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Anacin alternative - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Anti-inflammatory brand - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Excedrin alternative - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Alternative to Advil - 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.
- Extreme pain - AGONY, used 31 times
- Popular typeface - ARIAL, used 23 times
- Pain in the neck - CRICK, used 19 times
- Great pain - AGONY, used 18 times
- Popular aquarium fish - TETRA, used 16 times
- Popular font - ARIAL, used 16 times
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