Yawning fissure

The answer

CHASM

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

Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Deep ravine - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Wide gulf - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Gaping hole - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Yawning - AGAPE, used 38 times
• Yawning, perhaps - BORED, used 26 times
• Fissure - CLEFT, used 22 times
• Yawning gulf - ABYSS, used 11 times
• Yawning, maybe - BORED, used 11 times
• Cause of yawning - ENNUI, used 6 times

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