Clarifying words
The crossword clue "Clarifying words" is answered by IDEST, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
IDEST
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDEST answer page.
Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1996. 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
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Other clues for IDEST
Every other clue in this collection answered by IDEST, most used first.
- That is: Lat. - used 83 times, most recently in 2024
- That is, in Latin - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- That is - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- What "i.e." stands for - used 33 times, most recently in 2024
- Latin clarifier - used 25 times, most recently in 2020
- That is: Latin - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- In other words - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- That is, to Caesar - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
- Clarifying phrase - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- I.e. - used 13 times, most recently in 2009
- Namely, in Latin - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- In other words, in other words - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Latin "that is" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- "I.e.," spelled out - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- That is, to Tacitus - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- That is, to Tiberius - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Words of explanation - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- That is, to Cato - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Cato's clarification - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- i.e., for long - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Latin for "that is" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Namely - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Namely, to Nero - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- That is, to Cicero - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Useful Latin phrase. - used 7 times, most recently in 1962
- Clarifying Latin phrase - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Phrase of explanation - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- That is to say - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- "To be specific..." - 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.
- Words to live by - CREDO, used 84 times
- Clarifying words - IMEAN, used 70 times
- At ___ for words - ALOSS, used 63 times
- Man of many words - ROGET, used 58 times
- Words to live by - MOTTO, used 55 times
- "In other words . . ." - IMEAN, used 47 times
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