Mythical king

The answer

MIDAS

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 2 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.

• MINOS (3 uses in xd)
• LEAR (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for MIDAS

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

• King with a golden touch - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• "Golden touch" king - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Gold-loving king - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• King with the golden touch - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Greedy king of myth - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Kind of touch - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
• Legendary king. - used 8 times, most recently in 1999
• Mythical king with a golden touch - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• He had gilt feelings - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• King with a gilt complex? - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Mythical "golden touch" king - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Fit for a king - REGAL, used 114 times
• "The March King" - SOUSA, used 95 times
• Mythical weeper - NIOBE, used 54 times
• King of Judea - HEROD, used 45 times
• "The King" - ELVIS, used 41 times
• Judean king - HEROD, used 37 times

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