Some kind of nerve
The crossword clue "Some kind of nerve" is answered by OPTIC, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2019. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OPTIC
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OPTIC answer page.
Used 14 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2019. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for OPTIC
Every other clue in this collection answered by OPTIC, most used first.
- Eye-related - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
- Fiber-___ cable - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Vision-related - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Sight-related - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of nerve - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ nerve - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Of the eye - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Some nerve? - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Of vision - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Of the eyes - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Visual - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Type of nerve - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
- Eye doctor's lens - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Fiber-__ - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Of sight - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Visionary? - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Microscope part - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Telescope part - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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