Healing ointment
The crossword clue "Healing ointment" is answered by SALVE, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SALVE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SALVE answer page.
Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 10 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 SALVE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SALVE, most used first.
- Ointment - used 53 times, most recently in 2025
- Soothing ointment - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Balm - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Soothing lotion - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Soothing stuff - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Soothing substance - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Assuage - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Medicinal ointment - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Soothing application - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Soothing balm - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Unguent - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Soother - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Soothing cream - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Healing plants - ALOES, used 36 times
- Fly in the ointment - SNAFU, used 17 times
- Signs of healing - SCABS, used 16 times
- Japanese energy healing - REIKI, used 14 times
- Zinc __ ointment - OXIDE, used 11 times
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