Lightens the load
The crossword clue "Lightens the load" is answered by EASES, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EASES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EASES answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EASES
Every other clue in this collection answered by EASES, most used first.
- Alleviates - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
- Lets up - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
- Relaxes - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Facilitates - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Makes simpler - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Simplifies - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Makes less difficult - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Relieves - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Mitigates - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Soothes - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Abates - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Assuages - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Lightens - used 21 times, most recently in 2017
- Palliates - used 19 times, most recently in 2020
- Moves carefully - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Moves cautiously - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Softens - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Comforts - used 17 times, most recently in 2005
- Makes more bearable - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Lessens - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Slackens - used 15 times, most recently in 2012
- Ameliorates - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Lightens up - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Moderates - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Makes less burdensome - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Moves gingerly - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Allays - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Mollifies - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Slacks off - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Lessens, as pain - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Lessens the discomfort of - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Lightens, as a burden - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Makes less strict - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Makes more tolerable - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Smooths - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Uncomplicates - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
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- To the point - TERSE, used 194 times
- Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
- Cream of the crop - ELITE, used 175 times
- In the lead - AHEAD, used 166 times
- Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times
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