Cleans the slate
The crossword clue "Cleans the slate" is answered by ERASES, a 6-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1953. 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
ERASES
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ERASES answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1953. 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 ERASES
Every other clue in this collection answered by ERASES, most used first.
- Wipes out - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
- Rubs out - used 51 times, most recently in 2024
- Obliterates - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Makes blank - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Wipes clean - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Expunges - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Deletes - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Clears - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Gets the lead out - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Wipes off - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Wipes away - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Clears the board - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Removes - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Clears a tape - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
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