Erato or Clio

The answer

MUSE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MUSE answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MUSE

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

• Ponder - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Artist's inspiration - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Source of inspiration - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Inspiration - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Think deeply - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Artistic inspiration - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Creative inspiration - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Writer's inspiration - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Meditate - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Ruminate - used 13 times, most recently in 2017
• Poet's inspiration - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Deliberate - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Erato, for one - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Calliope, e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Clio or Erato - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Calliope, for one - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Cogitate - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Contemplate - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Reflect - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• She's an inspiration - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• Sister of Erato - CLIO, used 6 times

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