Clues for the word "ETHER"
We've had 244 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 842 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on January 22, 2026.
Definition of ether
- n. - A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
- n. - Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
- n. - A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.
- n. - Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.
Referring Clues
- Old-time anesthetic
- Early anesthetic
- Common solvent
- Pre-Novocain stuff
- Pre-op inhalant, once
- What a knockout!
- Old anesthetic
- Preoperative delivery, once
- It's a knockout
- Air beyond the clouds
- Part of the gasoline additive M.T.B.E.
- Preoperative delivery of old
- Upper region of space
- It puts people out
- Cousin of chloroform
- Bygone anesthetic
- Obsolete anesthetic
- It'll knock you out
- Composition of the stars, in old belief
- Old hospital administration
- Composition of outer space, in old belief
- Old-fashioned anesthetic
- Upper atmosphere
- It can knock people out
- Potent anesthetic
- The heavens, to poets
- Upper sky
- Compound number?
- Dimethyl ___ (aerosol propellant)
- Onetime dental anesthetic
- One on it may be out of it
- Clear sky
- Novocain predecessor
- Anesthetic gas of old
- Anesthetic of old
- Clear blue sky
- Airwaves, so to speak
- Upper regions of space
- Wild blue yonder
- Former anesthetic
- Procaine predecessor
- Old number?
- Nitrous oxide predecessor
- Airwaves
- Anesthesia of old
- Chloroform kin
- Outmoded anesthetic
- Aromatic solvent
- Once-popular anesthetic
- Aromatic liquid formerly used as an anesthetic
- Number that's no longer used
- Inhalant anesthetic of the past
- Aristotle's "fifth element"
- Number that might be used when counting backward from 100?
- Book of Mormon book
- Early number?
- It can put you out
- Passé gas
- Upper regions
- Old hospital supply
- It can knock you out
- Number no longer used
- Heavens
- Erstwhile anesthetic
- Operating room substance, once
- Anesthetic of yore
- Certain anesthetic
- Fifth classical element
- Heavenly space
- Anesthetic liquid
- Old sleep inducer
- The heavens
- Early anesthesia
- Inhalation anesthetic, once
- Air or heavens, to a poet
- Old operating-room substance
- Chloroform substitute
- Heavens, poetically
- Antiknock additive
- Old-style anesthetic
- Flammable liquid
- Discovery of a Spanish chemist in 1275
- Knock-out gas, once
- Old knockout cause
- Inhaled anesthetic of old
- Preoperative anesthetic of old
- Chloroform cousin
- A great composer?
- Knockout gas
- Kin of chloroform
- Early surgery aid
- Old-time knockout
- C4h10o
- Curious George's drug
- Number no longer used?
- Air up there
- Anesthetic
- A number of people?
- Numbing agent
- Rarefied air
- Fifth element, per Aristotle
- Anesthetic gas
- Old knockout agent
- Out-of-use anesthetic
- Organic compound
- Upper regions of space, figuratively
- Onetime anesthetic
- Knockout number?
- Dioxane, e.g.
- Dental anesthetic of old
- Former number?
- Standard anesthetic, once
- Dr. Larch's drug in "The Cider House Rules"
- Upper regions of space, poetically
- It's a real knockout
- Old-timey anesthetic [need a holiday gift? avxwords.com annual subscriptions are just $15]
- Anaesthetic
- Anesthetic, formerly
- It's a gas
- Air beyond the clouds, poetically
- Old anaesthetic
- Old under-taker
- Flammable solvent
- Old surgery aid
- Passé anesthetic
- Old-time knockout gas
- Air, to a poet
- A real knockout?
- Operating room substance of old
- Lead-in to net
- It put people to sleep, once
- Outer space
- Clear sky, poetically
- Outer regions of space
- Upper reaches of space
- Pre-einstein space filler
- Upper reaches
- Thin air
- Old knockout gas
- Surgeon's supply in the old days
- Chloroform relative
- It will put you to sleep
- Upper air, poetically
- Old numbing liquid
- Pre-Novocain application
- Outdated anesthetic
- Astronaut's milieu
- Space, to poets
- Gas
- It'll put you to sleep
- Anesthesia
- Knockout choice, once
- Old anaesthetic used in some therapy
- Anaesthetic used in some therapy
- Number three, possibly?
- Cyberspace
- Old knockout fumes
- Welsh alt-rock band
- Who "In the ___"
- Solvent, once used as anaesthetic
- The heavens opening in earnest, the rainstorm's beginning
- Volatile organic liquid once used as a general anaesthetic
- Number 2 of 3
- Gas - air - space
- Solvent - anaesthetic
- Extract of sweet herbs with characteristic odour
- Anaesthetic - solvent
- In there, you can find a source of oblivion
- A number coming from the Netherlands - could be three
- Three could put you to sleep!
- Anaesthetic hitch - temperature's dropped
- Three may put you to sleep
- Colourless, highly flammable liquid
- Number Three at sea
- The Queen's round number
- Clear air within could be the reason for ...
- Bearing the right number
- Colourless liquid used as a solvent
- Number three is wrong
- Completely lost voice and note from anaesthetic
- 26 3 3?
- Region beyond the ozone
- Knockout gas of old
- Anaesthetic gas
- Early anaesthetic
- Number three is confused
- Liquid used in some thermometers
- What might be there to put you out?
- Hesitation disturbed by the upper air
- Air lower down containing no nitrogen
- Colourless volatile highly inflammable liquid
- Rare atmosphere
- Liquid necessary to irrigate the region
- 7 and the lady
- One missing from a choice of two can put you out
- I don't feature in either solvent or anaesthetic
- This will put you out from inside the room
- Five into nine, the rational number
- Old number?
- Old-time anaesthetic
- Surgeon's supply of yore
- Lab liquid
- Medically, it's a knockout
- Old knockout
- Maybe three can put you to sleep
- Number taken in by sweet heroine
- Three can be useful in hospital
- Number three is odd
- Antiquated anesthetic
- Three is odd number
- Early number?
- Three might put you to sleep
- Clear night sky, in poetry
- Number three, possibly?
- Number used no more?
- There could be three, but not here!
- What radio signals travel through, with "the"
- Old dentist's supply
- Air film with that woman
- It can be bottled in the Netherlands
- Volatile liquid used in solvents
- Airwaves, informally
- Colourless flammable liquid
- Old knockout?
- Disappear into the ___
- Three could put you out
- Volatile liquid
- Heavens, in poetry
- Fifth element, to Aristotle
- Anesthetic for Shakespeare
- Onetime dentist's supply
- It can put a patient out
- Volatile liquid in parts of '24 Across'
- Anesthetic since the 1840s
- Vanish into the ___
- Anesthetic, once
- Inhaled anesthetic, old-style
- Chloroform kin of old
- Anaesthetic extract of sweet herbs
- Vanished into the ___
- Bitcoin alternative, familiarly
- Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842
- Number discovered in the 1500s
- Air
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - January 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 20, 2026
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- New York Times - December 21, 2025
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- Mindfood Daily - December 07, 2025
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- Penny Dell Sunday - November 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 27, 2025
- Daily American - November 13, 2025
- New York Times - November 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 29, 2025
- New York Times - October 28, 2025
- New York Times - October 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 23, 2025
- Daily American - October 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 05, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 19, 2025
- New York Times - September 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 02, 2025
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