Medicinal ointment
The crossword clue "Medicinal ointment" is answered by SALVE, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 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 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- CERATE (1 uses in xd)
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
- Healing ointment - used 14 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
- 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.
- Medicinal plant - SENNA, used 76 times
- Medicinal plants - ALOES, used 42 times
- Medicinal amounts - DOSES, used 34 times
- Medicinal shrub - SENNA, used 22 times
- Medicinal herb - SENNA, used 18 times
- Fly in the ointment - SNAFU, used 17 times
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