The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ETHER , but the solution may also be SKIES which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).
Heavens crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
ETHER | 16 % | 5 |
EGAD | 12 % | 4 |
SKIES | 12 % | 5 |
SKY | 11 % | 3 |
OHMY | 8 % | 4 |
OHNO | 5 % | 4 |
DEARME | 4 % | 6 |
DEARGOD | 3 % | 7 |
EDENS | 3 % | 5 |
OMIGOSH | 2 % | 7 |
MERCYME | 2 % | 7 |
FIRMAMENT | 2 % | 9 |
MYMY | 1 % | 4 |
GOSH | 1 % | 4 |
GEE | 1 % | 3 |
OHDEAR | 1 % | 6 |
OHME | 1 % | 4 |
MYWORD | 1 % | 6 |
ALAS | 1 % | 4 |
GAD | 1 % | 3 |
MERCY | 1 % | 5 |
MYGOODNESS | 1 % | 10 |
GOODGRIEF | 1 % | 9 |
OHDEARME | 1 % | 8 |
OHMYLORD | 1 % | 8 |
OHGOSH | 1 % | 6 |
EGADS | 1 % | 5 |
OHGOD | 1 % | 5 |
OHMEOHMY | 1 % | 8 |
FIRMAMENTS | 1 % | 10 |
YIKES | 1 % | 5 |
OH LORD! | 1 % | 8 |
MYGOSH | 1 % | 6 |
OHMYGOD | 1 % | 7 |
GOODGOD | 1 % | 7 |
GOODNESS | 1 % | 8 |
GOODNESSME | 1 % | 10 |
GEEWHIZ | 1 % | 7 |
GASP | 1 % | 4 |
OHLORDY | 1 % | 7 |
MYOHMY | 1 % | 6 |
Why may ETHER be the right solution?
Ether is a term used in science to describe the upper regions of space beyond the Earth's atmosphere. This is often referred to as the "heavens", making it a suitable answer for the crossword clue.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Heavens
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- firmament
- welkin
- celestial sphere
- sphere
- empyrean
- vault of heaven
- stars
- days
- gods
- blood
- seigneur
- gee
Crossword Answer definitions
ETHER noun- The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.
- Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
- The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
- A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
- Diethyl ether (C4H10O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
- Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
- To viciously humiliate or insult.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ETHER
- Old-time anaesthetic
- Old-time anesthetic
- Anesthetic
- Anesthetic of old
- Common solvent
- Erstwhile anesthetic
- It put people to sleep
- It's a gas
- Solvent
- It's a knockout
More clues leading to the result EGAD
- "Great Caesar's ghost!"
- "Heavens to Betsy!"
- "Omigod!"
- "Omigosh!"
- "Yikes!"
- "Zounds!" kin
- Goodness gracious!
- Holy cow, relative
- Mild epithet
- Mild exclamation
More clues leading to the result SKIES
- "Blue __" (Berlin tune)
- "Fly the friendly ____"
- Heavens
- See 63-Across
- Heavenly places
- Upper regions
- Wild blue yonder
- Summer __
- Firmament
- Heavens above
More clues leading to the result SKY
- "__ King" (old TV show)
- Blue shade
- It's overhead
- Shade of blue
- Contrail locale
- Diver's milieu
- Planetarium vista
- The view above
- __-high
- "What Would I Want? ___" (Animal Collective song)
More clues leading to the result OHMY
- "Heavens to Betsy!"
- "This is bad ..."
- "Good heavens!"
- "Heavens!"
- "That's surprising!"
- Expression of alarm
- "Gracious!"
- "This certainly isn't what I expected"
- "I didn't expect that!"
- "Goodness!"
More clues leading to the result OHNO
- "This can't be!"
- Follows an accident
- Words of dismay
- "Sakes alive!"
- "Say it ain't so!"
- Rats!
- "Heavens to Betsy!"
- "Dammit all!"
- Speed skating gold medalist
- "Can't be..."
More clues leading to the result DEARME
- "Oh, my!"
- "Alas!"
- "Eek!"
- Peter Ustinov's book
- "Oh my goodness"
- "Good heavens!"
- "Goodness gracious!"
- Start of a diary entry?
- "Stars above!"
- "Good grief!"
More clues leading to the result DEARGOD
- *"Holy cow!"
- 1996 Greg Kinnear film
- Response to awful news
- "Heavens!"
- "Oh, jeez!"
- "Holy Toledo!"
- "My heavens!"
- Religious XTC hit?
- "Good Lord!"
- "For heaven's sake!"
More clues leading to the result EDENS
- Paradises
- Anthony and Barbara
- Idyllic settings
- Blissful locales
- Ideal locales
- Delightful places
- Unspoiled locales
- Elysiums
- Good places?
- Heavenly spots
More clues leading to the result OMIGOSH
- "Yipes!"
- "Yikes!"
- Response to a shock
- Quaint "Jeepers!"
- "Holy cow!"
- "Wow!"
- "Heavens!"
- Dagwood exclamation
- Dagwood's "Goodness!"
- Cry of panic
More clues leading to the result MERCYME
- "Good lord!"
- "Heavens!"
- "Good heavens!"
- "Well I'll be!"
- "Heavens to Betsy!"
- "Oh, lordy!"
- Expression of alarm
More clues leading to the result FIRMAMENT
More clues leading to the result MYMY
- "Hmm, what do we have here?"
- "Heavens!"
- "Goodness!"
- "Fancy that!"
- "Goodness gracious!"
- "What have we here?"
- Expression of mild surprise
- "Oh, dear!"
- "Well, I declare!"
- "You don't say!"
More clues leading to the result GOSH
- Mild oath
- "Gee whillikers!"
- "Gee!"
- "Holy mackerel!"
- "Well, I'll be!"
- "Jeepers!"
- "Wow!"
- "Oh, my!"
- "Wowsers!"
- "Oh my!"
More clues leading to the result GEE
- "Golly!"
- "___ whiz"
- Start to whiz?
- Whiz lead-in
- Beaver exclamation
- Command to a horse
- Golly
- Step in the right direction
- Turn right
- Word from Beaver Cleaver
More clues leading to the result OHDEAR
- "My goodness!"
- "Here we go again"
- "Mercy me!"
- Phrase of distress
- "How awful!"
- "Oops!"
- Worrywart's exclamation
- "This isn't good!"
- "Goodness gracious!"
- "How worrisome!"
More clues leading to the result OHME
- "Alas!"
- Words of woe
- Despondent cry
- "Dear, dear!"
- Woeful cry
- Words of worry
- "Alas"
- "Good heavens!"
- "Goodness gracious!"
- Worrier's words
More clues leading to the result MYWORD
More clues leading to the result ALAS
- "Ah me!"
- "Ah, me!"
- "Bummer, man!"
- "More's the pity"
- "Poor me!"
- "What a pity"
- "Woe is me!"
- "__, poor Yorick!"
- "__, poor Yorick!": Shak.
- Cry of dismay
More clues leading to the result GAD
- Flit about
- Gallivant
- Wander (about)
- Roam around
- Meander
- Be footloose
- Amble
- ___ about (roam)
- Go a-roving
- Ramble around
More clues leading to the result MERCY
- Benevolence
- Compassionate treatment
- Compassion
- Condemned man's request
- What a lenient judge may show
- "Have __!"
- "Goodness gracious!"
- "Heavens to Betsy!"
- "My heavens!"
- Feeling of compassion
More clues leading to the result MYGOODNESS
More clues leading to the result GOODGRIEF
- "Heavens!"
- Exclamation popularized by 20-Across
- Expression of disappointment, see 17 Across
- "Peanuts" comment
- "Peanuts" epithet
- Charlie Brown's "Oh no!"
- Brown outburst
- "Peanuts" outburst
- Catchwords from Charlie Brown
- "Heavens to Betsy!"
More clues leading to the result OHDEARME
- "My stars!"
- "Heavens to Murgatroyd!"
- "My heavens!"
- "My goodness!"
- "Heavens!"
- Hand wringer's cry
- "Yikes!," quaintly
- Pearl clutcher's cry
- *"Goodness gracious!"
More clues leading to the result OHMYLORD
More clues leading to the result OHGOSH
- "Holy cow!"
- "Jumping jiminy"
- "Well, gee"
- Cry of quaint surprise
- "Dear me!"
- Cry of dismay
- "Goodness gracious!"
- "Good grief!"
- "Jeepers!"
- "Yikes!"
More clues leading to the result EGADS
- "My goodness!"
- "My word!"
- Old oath
- Quaint oath
- Zounds!
- Mild oath
- "I never!"
- "I say!"
- "Oh, bother"
- Astonished outburst
More clues leading to the result OHGOD
- Burns flick of 1977
- Burns classic
- Outburst in congress?
- Phrase said with an eye roll
- George Burns movie
- John Denver comedy
- 1977 George Burns film
- 1977 comedy featuring the line "So help me me"
- Burns film
- 1977 George Burns movie
More clues leading to the result OHMEOHMY
More clues leading to the result FIRMAMENTS
More clues leading to the result YIKES
More clues leading to the result OH LORD!
More clues leading to the result MYGOSH
- "Heavens to Betsy!"
- "Heavens!"
- "Holy moly!"
- Cry of surprise
- Rustic exclamation
- "For heaven's sake!"
- "Goodness me!"
- "Holy cow!"
- "Goodness gracious!"
More clues leading to the result OHMYGOD
More clues leading to the result GOODGOD
More clues leading to the result GOODNESS
- With 35- and 52-Across, a movie line; with 29- and 43-Across, response of 40-Down
- Integrity
- Virtue
- "My __!"
- "Heavens!"
- Quality of saints.
- Gracious introduction?
- "My word!"
- "Wow!"
More clues leading to the result GOODNESSME
More clues leading to the result GEEWHIZ
- Wide-eyed cry
- "Golly!"
- "Wow!"
- "Gosh!" (or, based on the starts of starred answers, one who is expert at solving this puzzle's theme?)
- Gosh!
- Kin of "My goodness!"
- "Imagine that!"
- "Aw, shucks"
- Beaver Cleaver expletive ... or what you might need to be to answer 18-, 23-, 51- and 60-Across?
- "Wow, you're a regular expert at turning right!"
More clues leading to the result GASP
- Reaction of surprise
- Post-aerobics breath, perhaps
- Shocked reaction
- Shocking reaction
- Breathe laboriously
- Express surprise
- Wheeze
- Pant
- Sound from one who was underwater too long
- Shocked sound