Nerve impulse relayer

The answer

AXON

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AXON answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2015. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AXON

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

• Neural transmitter - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• Nerve-cell part - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Impulse carrier - used 27 times, most recently in 2018
• Impulse transmitter - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Nerve-cell process - used 21 times, most recently in 2012
• Nerve fiber - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Impulse conductor - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Nerve cell transmitter - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Neuron part - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Part of a nerve cell - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Nerve cell appendage - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Neuron appendage - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Impulse relayer - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Nerve cell extension - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Neural conductor - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Nerve impulse transmitter - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Impulse - URGE, used 191 times
• Have the nerve - DARE, used 88 times
• Nerve network - RETE, used 45 times
• Strong impulse - URGE, used 35 times
• Nerve - GALL, used 30 times
• Sudden impulse - URGE, used 29 times

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