Deadly poisons
The crossword clue "Deadly poisons" is answered by BANES, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1964. 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
BANES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BANES answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BANES
Every other clue in this collection answered by BANES, most used first.
- Curses - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Poisons - used 14 times, most recently in 2012
- Scourges - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Ruinations - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Bugaboos - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Afflictions - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Causes of ruin - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Spoilers - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
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.
- Deadly - FATAL, used 105 times
- A deadly sin - SLOTH, used 29 times
- Deadly African snake - MAMBA, used 29 times
- Deadly virus - EBOLA, used 28 times
- Number of deadly sins - SEVEN, used 16 times
- Deadly snake - VIPER, used 15 times
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