The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word OPIUM which also is the latest solution we found used in Chronicle of Higher Education in 2006.
Drug smuggled by 19th-century British merchant ships crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
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OPIUM | 100 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Drug smuggled by 19th-century British merchant ships
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Crossword Answer definitions
OPIUM noun- A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
- Anything that numbs or stupefies.
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