"The sky's the ___!"

The answer

LIMIT

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

Used 20 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LIMIT

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

• Put a cap on - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Restrict - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Boundary - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Cap - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Ceiling - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Maximum - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Confine - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
• Maximum amount - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Calculus calculation - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Curtail. - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Maximum bet - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• Maximum or minimum - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Maximum speed - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Constrain - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Utmost extent - used 7 times, most recently in 1992
• Constraint - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Last straw - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Upper bound - 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
• 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
• Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times

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