Exit-the-program key
The crossword clue "Exit-the-program key" is answered by ESC, a 3-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ESC
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ESC answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ESC
Every other clue in this collection answered by ESC, most used first.
- PC key - used 239 times, most recently in 2026
- Computer key - used 110 times, most recently in 2026
- F1 neighbor - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- PC bailout key - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Corner key - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Upper-left key - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- PC panic button - used 39 times, most recently in 2022
- Upper-left PC key - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- "Exit full screen" key - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Corner PC key - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Top-left PC key - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Key above ~ - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Key near F1 - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- PC "oops" key - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Bailout key - used 18 times, most recently in 2019
- Upper-left keyboard key - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Top-left keyboard key - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Emergency PC key - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Exit key - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Key next to F1 - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Keyboard key - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Top-left key - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Bailout button - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Laptop key - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- PC "Go back!" key - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Corner key on a PC - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Key in a corner - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- PC's undo key - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Upper-left computer key - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Window-closing key - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- PC corner key - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- PC "undo" key - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Emergency key - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Key for exiting full-screen mode - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Key for getting out - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- PC key near F1 - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- PC panic key - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Corner keyboard key - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Key in the corner - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Key to get out? - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- PC bailout - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- PC key abbr. - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Top-row PC key - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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