Planet
Crossword Clue & Answers

26 November 2021
Last seen in: Evening Standard Easy Crossword

We found 17 answers for the crossword clue 'Planet', the most recent of which was seen in the Evening Standard Easy Crossword.

This clue looks to be a standard clue as in it's a NON-CRYPTIC crossword based on the publications in which we have recently seen it.

We have given Planet a popularity rating of 'Very Common' because it has featured in a numerous crossword publications and has multiple answers.

As well as being a clue we've also seen Planet as an answer itself some 178 times.

Planet is a single word clue made up of 6 letters.

We most recently saw this clue in 'Evening Standard Easy Crossword' on Monday, 29 November 2021 with the answer being NEPTUNE, we also found NEPTUNE to be the most popular answer for this clue.

We've seen this clue in the following publications:

• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 29 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 23 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 9 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 3 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 22 Sep 2021
• The Daily Mail Quick - 27 Aug 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 16 Aug 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 5 Aug 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 1 Jun 2021
• The Daily Mail Quick - 25 May 2021

Definitions and usage

Before we get to our crossword answers for 'Planet', take a look at the definitions and example uses below, sometimes these help you think of different words or phrases that are common to 'Planet' and give you a hint.

• Any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star
• (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction
• A person who follows or serves another

Anagrams

We found 2 anagrams for the word 'Planet'.

• pantle
• platen The flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type

Crossword Answers

3 Letters

ORB
Move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"

4 Letters

MARS
A small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color; "Mars has two satellites"

5 Letters

DETER
Turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"

DWARF
A plant or animal that is atypically small

EARTH
A connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)

GLOBE
A sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented

PLUTO
A small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets; "Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930"

VENUS
Type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells

WORLD
All of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

6 Letters

SATURN
(Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart of Greek Cronus; "Saturday is Saturn's Day"

URANUS
(Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology

7 Letters

JUPITER
(Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus

MERCURY
Temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; "the mercury was falling rapidly"

NEPTUNE
A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; "the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846"

8 Letters

REVOLVER
A pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)

9 Letters

SATELLITE
Any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star

11 Letters

MAJORPLANET
(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction