Initial assault
The crossword clue "Initial assault" is answered by ONSET, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ONSET
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONSET answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ONSET
Every other clue in this collection answered by ONSET, most used first.
- Beginning - used 596 times, most recently in 2026
- Start - used 209 times, most recently in 2026
- Commencement - used 109 times, most recently in 2025
- Initial stage - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
- Get-go - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Beginning stage - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Assault - used 42 times, most recently in 2009
- First stage - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Kickoff - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Early stage - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Inception - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Dawn - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Attack - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- First phase - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Earliest stage - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Beginning phase - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Early stages - used 19 times, most recently in 2016
- Genesis - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Initial phase - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Dawning - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Advent - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- First appearance - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Starting point - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- It's a start - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- First sign - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Day one - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- First symptoms - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
- Opening - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Start of something - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Beginning stages - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- First appearance, as of symptoms - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Outbreak - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- First occurrence - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Git-go - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Incipience - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Very beginning - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Prolonged assault - SIEGE, used 15 times
- Initial - FIRST, used 10 times
- Initial venture - FORAY, used 9 times
- Initial comment, for short - INTRO, used 7 times
- Military assault - SIEGE, used 7 times
- Assault on Troy, e.g. - SIEGE, used 6 times
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