Less perilous

The answer

SAFER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SAFER answer page.

Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SAFER

Every other clue in this collection answered by SAFER, most used first.

• Less risky - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
• More secure - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
• Less dangerous - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Morley of "60 Minutes" - used 30 times, most recently in 2020
• Not as risky - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• More protected - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• TV's Morley - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Less hazardous - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• "60 Minutes" correspondent - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
• Less of a risk - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Better protected - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Less dicey - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• "60 Minutes" reporter - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Less chancy - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Morley of CBS - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Newsman Morley - used 6 times, most recently in 2006

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.

• Less common - RARER, used 151 times
• Less friendly - ICIER, used 86 times
• Less cordial - ICIER, used 71 times
• More or less - ABOUT, used 62 times
• Less than 90 degrees - ACUTE, used 49 times
• Less loony - SANER, used 44 times

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