Contents of Pandora's box

The answer

EVILS

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

Used 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 8 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.

• ILLS (15 uses in xd)

Other clues for EVILS

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

• Lesser of two __ - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• The lesser of two ___ - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Iniquities - used 19 times, most recently in 2020
• Bad things - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Pandora's boxful - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• Sins - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Pandora released them - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Bad deeds - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Harmful aspects - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Ills - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Wicked ways - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Misfortunes - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Wicked acts - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• What Pandora released - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

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• Wooden box - CRATE, used 44 times
• Ark contents - TORAH, used 38 times
• Box - CRATE, used 33 times
• Packing box - CRATE, used 29 times
• Japanese box lunch - BENTO, used 23 times
• Orange box - CRATE, used 16 times

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