Gaping hole
The crossword clue "Gaping hole" is answered by CHASM, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CHASM
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CHASM answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for CHASM
Every other clue in this collection answered by CHASM, most used first.
- Abyss - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Deep gorge - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Gorge - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep divide - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Gulf - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Deep fissure - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Great divide - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Yawning fissure - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- Deep ravine - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Wide gulf - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep cleft - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Deep gap - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- The Grand Canyon, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Wide divide - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Yawning gap - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Hole ___. - INONE, used 76 times
- Roll with a hole - BAGEL, used 34 times
- ___ the hole - ACEIN, used 31 times
- Hole in the head - SINUS, used 28 times
- Watering hole - OASIS, used 21 times
- Desert watering hole - OASIS, used 19 times
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