Common solvent

The answer

ETHER

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

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. 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.

• ACETONE (14 uses in xd)
• NAPHTHA (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ETHER

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

• Old anesthetic - used 156 times, most recently in 2026
• Clear sky - used 90 times, most recently in 2026
• Old-time anesthetic - used 76 times, most recently in 2025
• Early anesthetic - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Bygone anesthetic - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Former anesthetic - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Heavens - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Upper regions of space - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Anesthetic of old - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Anesthetic - used 23 times, most recently in 2006
• Erstwhile anesthetic - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• Old number? - used 20 times, most recently in 2019
• Upper regions - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• It'll knock you out - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
• Obsolete anesthetic - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• The clear sky - used 13 times, most recently in 2000
• Wild blue yonder - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• The heavens - used 12 times, most recently in 2016
• Anesthetic of yore - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Cyberspace - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Disappear into the ___ - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Once-popular anesthetic - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Upper space - used 9 times, most recently in 1990
• Anesthesia of old - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Flammable solvent - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• It's a gas - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• It's a knockout - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Old-time anaesthetic - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Operating room substance, once - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Upper atmosphere - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Chloroform kin - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Clear blue sky - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Knockout gas - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Old-fashioned anesthetic - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Old-style anesthetic - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
• Upper region of space - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Upper sky - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Less common - RARER, used 151 times
• "Common Sense" author - PAINE, used 62 times
• Not as common - RARER, used 41 times
• Common contraction - ARENT, used 40 times
• "Common Sense" writer - PAINE, used 37 times
• "Common Sense" pamphleteer - PAINE, used 25 times

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