The clear sky
The crossword clue "The clear sky" is answered by ETHER, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2000; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ETHER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ETHER answer page.
Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2000; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- 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
- Common solvent - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- 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.
- In the know - AWARE, used 356 times
- Steer clear of - AVOID, used 245 times
- To the point - TERSE, used 194 times
- Take the wheel - STEER, used 188 times
- Cream of the crop - ELITE, used 175 times
- In the lead - AHEAD, used 166 times
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