The Clue
Dr. Morton's anesthetic (5 letter answer)
The Answer
ETHER
Tags
Notes
The answer ETHER is seen frequently, appearing about once every 110 puzzles.
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Clear sky
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It's a knockout
Knockout number?
Old anesthetic
Space, to poets
Upper air
Upper atmosphere
Upper regions
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Air beyond the clouds
Laughing-gas kin
Once-popular anesthetic
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Preoperative delivery of old
Preoperative delivery, once
Solvent for resins and fats
Upper regions of space
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It puts people out
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One on it may be out of it
This could put you under
Definition
ETHER as a noun:
1. (ether, ethoxyethane, divinyl ether, vinyl ether, diethyl ether, ethyl ether) = a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
2. (quintessence, ether) = the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
3. any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
4. (ether, aether) = a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves