Heart and soul
The crossword clue "Heart and soul" is answered by ESSENCE, a 7-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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ESSENCE
7 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ESSENCE answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ESSENCE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ESSENCE, most used first.
- Gist - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Perfume - used 44 times, most recently in 2016
- Intrinsic nature - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Basic nature - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Core - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Pith - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
- Heart - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Intrinsic quality - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Lifeblood - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Quiddity - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Soul - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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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.
- Now and then - ATTIMES, used 31 times
- By and large - ASARULE, used 23 times
- Leaves high and dry - STRANDS, used 18 times
- "___ and Old Lace" - ARSENIC, used 16 times
- "War and Peace" author - TOLSTOY, used 14 times
- Leave high and dry - ABANDON, used 13 times
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