Flavor-enhancing additive
The crossword clue "Flavor-enhancing additive" is answered by MSG, a 3-letter entry. Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MSG
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MSG answer page.
Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for MSG
Every other clue in this collection answered by MSG, most used first.
- Flavor enhancer, for short - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- NYC arena - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Food additive - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Flavor enhancer - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Flavor enhancer letters - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Flavor enhancer initials - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Chinese food additive - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Controversial flavor enhancer - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Flavor enhancer, briefly - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Food additive letters - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- NYC sports venue - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- "No ___" - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Chinese menu letters - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Flavor intensifier - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- N.Y.C. sports venue - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Chop suey additive - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Chow mein additive - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Food additive initials - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- "No __" (Chinese-restaurant sign) - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- "No ___" (menu phrase) - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Stir-fry additive - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Umami enhancer, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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