The Clue
Old hospital administration (5 letter answer)
The Answer
ETHER
Tags
Notes
The answer ETHER is seen frequently, appearing about once every 110 puzzles.
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An anesthetic
Anesthetic
Heavens
Astronaut's milieu
BBC realm
Bygone anesthetic
Chloroform kin
Clear sky
The clear sky
Colorless liquid
Dioxane, e.g.
Early anesthetic
It's a knockout
Old anesthetic
Preparation for drilling?
Space, to poets
Upper atmosphere
Upper regions
Upper space
Air beyond the clouds
Dr. Morton's anesthetic
Laughing-gas kin
Old-fashioned anesthetic
Once-popular anesthetic
Onetime dental anesthetic
Pre-Novocain stuff
Upper regions of space
Wild blue yonder
It puts people out
It'll knock you out
It can knock people out
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