Elicit by reasoning
The crossword clue "Elicit by reasoning" is answered by EDUCE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EDUCE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EDUCE answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EDUCE
Every other clue in this collection answered by EDUCE, most used first.
- Draw out - used 168 times, most recently in 2026
- Bring out - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
- Draw forth - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Elicit - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Bring forth - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Infer - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Develop - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Infer from data. - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Extract - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
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.
- Elicit - EVOKE, used 23 times
- Sound reasoning - LOGIC, used 20 times
- Reasoning - LOGIC, used 14 times
- Derive by reasoning - INFER, used 10 times
- Valid reasoning - LOGIC, used 9 times
- Elicit chuckles from - AMUSE, used 7 times
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