Done in, as a dragon

The answer

SLAIN

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

Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SLAIN

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

• Done in - used 90 times, most recently in 2025
• Murdered - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Assassinated - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
• Killed - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Bumped off - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Killed, as a dragon - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Destroyed. - used 11 times, most recently in 2002
• Dispatched - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• An anagram for nails - used 7 times, most recently in 2000
• "And hast thou ___ the Jabberwock?" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Hast thou ___ the Jabberwock?" - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

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.

• "Well done!" - BRAVO, used 59 times
• Done - ENDED, used 42 times
• Done for - KAPUT, used 35 times
• "All done!" - THERE, used 32 times
• "Been __, done that" - THERE, used 30 times
• Just not done - TABOO, used 19 times

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