On the mother's side

The answer

ENATE

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ENATE

Every other clue in this collection answered by ENATE, most used first.

• Growing out - used 159 times, most recently in 2014
• Maternally related - used 87 times, most recently in 2018
• Related on the mother's side - used 66 times, most recently in 2023
• Related maternally - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Related on mom's side - used 31 times, most recently in 2022
• Growing outward - used 28 times, most recently in 2011
• Related on mother's side - used 22 times, most recently in 2008
• Maternal relative - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• Related to mom - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Akin on Mom's side - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Descended on the mother's side - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Related on one's mother's side - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• A maternal relation - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Maternally akin - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Mother's relative - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Maternal relation - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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• Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times

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