Nitrous ___ (laughing gas)
The crossword clue "Nitrous ___ (laughing gas)" is answered by OXIDE, a 5-letter entry. Used 39 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus.
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OXIDE
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Used 39 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1989. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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