A vital sign
The crossword clue "A vital sign" is answered by PULSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2016. 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
PULSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PULSE answer page.
Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2016. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PULSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by PULSE, most used first.
- Sign of life - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Throb - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Heartbeat - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Vital sign - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Beat - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- One of the vital signs - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Heart rate - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Heart throb - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Heart's beat - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Heartbeat indicator - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Living proof? - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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