The Clue
"The sweetest gift of heaven": Virgil (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SLEEP
Tags
Notes
The answer SLEEP is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.
Related Clues
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___ on (defer)
Doze
Nap
Repose
Rest
Shuteye
Wets
Chandler's "The Big ___"
Drop off
Insomniac's need
Insomniac's quest
Kind of walker
Lie dormant
Lullaby word
Meet Morpheus
Outcome of a lullaby
Period of quiescence
Realm of Somnus
REM time
Sack out
"Balm of hurt minds"
Catch 40 winks
Catch some Z's
Computer mode
Chronotherapy aids it
"The City of ___," Kipling poem
Coleridge's "gentle thing"
Fail to be alert
Get some shuteye
Knitter of ravell'd sleaves
"O magic ___!": Keats
Poet Wilbur's "Walking to ___"
R. Wilbur's "Walking to ___"
Ravell'd -sleave knitter
Result of counting sheep
"Sore labour's bath"
Get some shut-eye
"Sore labour's bath": Shak
Sore labour's bath, to Shakespeare
What a new parent craves
Hamlet's word before "perchance to dream"
It was azure-lidded, to Keats
To Milton it was "dewy-feathered"
Definition
SLEEP as a noun:
1. (sleep, slumber) = a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"
2. (sleep, sopor) = a torpid state resembling deep sleep
3. (sleep, nap) = a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"
4. (rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus) = euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
SLEEP as a verb:
1. (sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's) = be asleep
2. be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people"