Clear a blackboard
The crossword clue "Clear a blackboard" is answered by ERASE, a 5-letter entry. Used 25 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ERASE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ERASE answer page.
Used 25 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ERASE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ERASE, most used first.
- Obliterate - used 256 times, most recently in 2025
- Wipe out - used 244 times, most recently in 2026
- Wipe clean - used 238 times, most recently in 2026
- Rub out - used 217 times, most recently in 2026
- Make blank - used 197 times, most recently in 2026
- Expunge - used 174 times, most recently in 2026
- Delete - used 159 times, most recently in 2026
- Wipe away - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- Clear - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
- Clear the board - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
- Remove - used 75 times, most recently in 2025
- Clear the slate - used 61 times, most recently in 2025
- Get the lead out? - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Clean the slate - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Backspace over - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
- Wipe off - used 41 times, most recently in 2024
- Remove pencil marks - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Take out - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Eliminate - used 33 times, most recently in 2022
- Rub off - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
- Answering machine button - used 30 times, most recently in 2016
- Blot out - used 28 times, most recently in 2020
- Wipe the slate clean - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Clear the blackboard - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Cancel - used 24 times, most recently in 2003
- Wipe - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Eradicate - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Steer clear of - AVOID, used 245 times
- Steer clear of - EVADE, used 98 times
- Clear sky - ETHER, used 90 times
- Steer clear of - ELUDE, used 38 times
- Clear - LUCID, used 36 times
- "___ you loud and clear" - IREAD, used 28 times
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