Poet's inspiration

The answer

ERATO

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

Used 16 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• MUSE (11 uses in xd)
• LAURA (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ERATO

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

• Muse of poetry - used 178 times, most recently in 2026
• Poetry Muse - used 94 times, most recently in 2024
• Poet's Muse - used 86 times, most recently in 2026
• Muse - used 80 times, most recently in 1996
• Muse of love poetry - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Muse of lyric poetry - used 77 times, most recently in 2025
• Poetic Muse - used 73 times, most recently in 2025
• One of the Muses - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
• Sister of Clio - used 54 times, most recently in 2018
• A Muse - used 52 times, most recently in 2024
• Muse with a lyre - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
• Sister of Calliope - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Clio's sister - used 35 times, most recently in 2017
• Love poetry Muse - used 29 times, most recently in 2021
• Sister of Urania - used 28 times, most recently in 2022
• Sappho's Muse - used 24 times, most recently in 2014
• Sister of Thalia - used 24 times, most recently in 2021
• Lyre-playing Muse - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
• Calliope's sister - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Sister of Terpsichore - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• A sister of Clio - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
• Sister of Euterpe - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
• Bard's muse - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Sonneteer's Muse - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• A sister of Calliope - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
• Love poet's Muse - used 11 times, most recently in 2013
• Lyric Muse - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Muse of verse - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
• Muse who inspires poets - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• One of the Dryads - used 10 times, most recently in 1992
• Poets' Muse - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Bard's inspiration - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Daughter of Mnemosyne - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Muse for Pindar - used 8 times, most recently in 1993
• Muse for poets - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Sister of Melpomene - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Thalia's sister - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Wordsworth's Muse - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Greek poetry muse - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Lyric poetry muse - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Lyrical muse - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Muse for Sappho - used 7 times, most recently in 1993
• Muse of love poems - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Muse of mime - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Muse or Dryad - used 7 times, most recently in 1988
• Sister of Polyhymnia - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Urania's sister - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Greek muse - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Muse of erotic poetry - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Muse often depicted with a lyre - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• One of nine Muses - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• One of the nine Muses - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Poet's concern - METER, used 42 times
• Bit of inspiration - SPARK, used 11 times
• Poet's "below" - NEATH, used 10 times
• Sources of inspiration - MUSES, used 9 times

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