The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ETHER , but the solution may also be OH LORD! which is one of the most recent solution (2024 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 | 11 % | 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 |
OHME | 1 % | 4 |
MYWORD | 1 % | 6 |
MYMY | 1 % | 4 |
GOSH | 1 % | 4 |
GEE | 1 % | 3 |
OHDEAR | 1 % | 6 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 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 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
More clues leading to the result OHLORDY
More clues leading to the result MYOHMY
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