First-discovered asteroid

The answer

CERES

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CERES

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

• Harvest goddess - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Largest asteroid - used 25 times, most recently in 2014
• Goddess of agriculture - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
• Roman goddess of agriculture - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Roman goddess. - used 16 times, most recently in 1987
• Largest known asteroid - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Demeter's Roman counterpart - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• First known asteroid - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Agriculture goddess - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Saturn's daughter - used 8 times, most recently in 2004
• Daughter of Saturn - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Dwarf planet in the asteroid belt - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Daughter of Ops - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Goddess of grain - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• The largest asteroid in the solar system - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

Related clues

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• India's first prime minister - NEHRU, used 149 times
• First Greek letter - ALPHA, used 108 times
• First-stringers - ATEAM, used 107 times
• First Hebrew letter - ALEPH, used 90 times
• In first place - ONTOP, used 60 times

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