Illicit love affair

The answer

AMOUR

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AMOUR

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

• Love affair - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Love, in Lyon - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Love, in French - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• ___-propre. - used 25 times, most recently in 2021
• Affair of the heart - used 22 times, most recently in 2020
• Affaire de coeur - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• French romance - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Love in Paris - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie ___" - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• French for "love" - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• French love - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• "My Cherie ___" - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
• Love, in France - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Love, in Lille - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "My Cherie ___" (Stevie Wonder song) - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Illicit affair - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Love in Lyons - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Parisian passion - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Chanson subject - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• "My Cherie ___" (Stevie Wonder hit) - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Romance - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• "Hiroshima, Mon ___" - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Love in Limoges - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Love, in the Louvre - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Lover - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Parisian love - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Love, in Lourdes - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

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.

• Love to pieces - ADORE, used 190 times
• Love, Italian-style - AMORE, used 132 times
• Juliet's love - ROMEO, used 86 times
• Muse of love poetry - ERATO, used 77 times
• Love, to Luigi - AMORE, used 70 times
• Love to bits - ADORE, used 66 times

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