Funeral fires
The crossword clue "Funeral fires" is answered by PYRES, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PYRES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PYRES answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PYRES
Every other clue in this collection answered by PYRES, most used first.
- Combustible heaps - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Funeral oration - ELOGE, used 26 times
- Fires - SACKS, used 25 times
- Funeral hymn - DIRGE, used 24 times
- Funeral song - DIRGE, used 24 times
- Fires off - SENDS, used 13 times
- "Funeral Blues" poet - AUDEN, used 10 times
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