Clues for the word "PLACEBO"
We've had 83 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 93 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on January 02, 2026.
Definition of placebo
- n. - The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
- n. - A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.
Referring Clues
- A person may be taken in by taking it
- Part of a test, maybe
- Part of many a test
- Test control
- Medical test control substance
- Control group's pill
- It might have an effect
- Sugar pill
- Control group handout
- Control-group dose
- Clinical trial offering, perhaps
- Sugar pill, say
- Clinical-trial need
- Controversial testing component
- Part of many a drug test
- Drug tester's control substance
- Dummy drug
- Sugar pill, e.g.
- Ersatz pill
- Phony medicine
- Inert medication
- Pill with no intended effect
- Drug trial staple
- It should have no effect
- Medicine-free medicine
- Means of rigorous control
- Clinical-trial staple
- Fake pill
- Control-group handout
- Inactive medication
- Control substance?
- Medically ineffectual treatment
- Fake medicine
- Inert pill
- Control in a clinical study
- Fake medication
- Medicine with no therapeutic effect
- Innocuous medication that may make you feel better
- Dummy pill used in testing the effect of medicines
- Inactive medicine with rank smell
- Dummy pill
- Ineffective substance given to humour patient
- Medical treatment whose effect is psychological
- Material cased in lead, old stuff used in medical experiment
- Cable screwed Post Office over, which may humour some deluded people
- Sham medicine used in test or for effect
- Identify unpleasant smell - but this won't cure anything
- Inactive treatment for rank smell
- Medicine given for its psychological benefit alone
- Invalid treatment? Yes and no!
- Medicine working by psychology only
- Something to soothe old boy turning up after a scene
- Locate unpleasant smell, but this won't cure it
- Medication made to please?
- Identify smell as something with no real effect
- Medicine used to fix problem with smell?
- Inactive drug
- Deliberately ineffective drug
- Medicament often given as a pacifier
- Innocuous medication; palliative
- Crooked cop able to identify fake pill
- False medication, psychologically applied
- Job for old pupil returning as pacifier
- Clinical trial drug giving home unpleasant smell
- Lab cope with modifying drug for clinical trial
- Spot a personal problem that makes you feel better in your head
- Put old boy on back - it does nothing to cure him
- Fake med
- "Medicine" used in tests
- Control, maybe
- Pretend drug put down bog, in the main
- Treatment that shouldn't have an effect
- Recognise personal smell, something that may have an effect in itself
- Control group handout, maybe
- Inert medication that may have an effect
- ... and bring on singer Diddley instead?
- Sham treatment
- Pill in experimental studies
- "Medicine" that doesn't actually contain medicine
- Pill in a clinical trial
- Pill for a control group
- Component of many a trial
- Non-pharmacological component of a clinical trial
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - January 02, 2026
- New York Times - October 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 17, 2025
- New York Times - January 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 18, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 15, 2023
- Family Time - July 02, 2023
- USA Today - January 10, 2023
- Mirror Quick - February 03, 2018
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - January 07, 2018
- Mirror Daily - October 21, 2017
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2017
- Guardian Quiptic - October 02, 2017
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2017
- Universal - February 28, 2017
- Guardian Quick - November 01, 2016
- Mirror Daily - October 21, 2016
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 29, 2016
- Guardian Quiptic - July 25, 2016
- Mirror Daily - June 02, 2016
- And in 63 more crossword puzzles...