Youth who flew too near the sun
The crossword clue "Youth who flew too near the sun" is answered by ICARUS, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ICARUS
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ICARUS answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ICARUS
Every other clue in this collection answered by ICARUS, most used first.
- Son of Daedalus - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- He flew too close to the sun - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Doomed flier - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Ill-fated flier - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Mythical flyer - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Wax-winged flier of myth - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
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