Provoke
The crossword clue "Provoke" is answered by ELICIT, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ELICIT
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELICIT answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ELICIT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELICIT, most used first.
- Draw out - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
- Bring out - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Draw forth - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Bring forth - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Evoke - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Call forth - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Extract - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Evoke, as a response - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Bring to light - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
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