Art silk or any variant(5 letters)

Below is the answer to the crossword clue “Art silk or any variant”, taken from the Evening Standard's Cryptic crossword on 18th August 2025.

The answer is

R A Y O N

5 letters · most recently seen on 18th August 2025

Other clues that solve to RAYON

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#21 down Synthetic fibre (5) 1st September 2026
#21 down Synthetic fibre (5) 4th June 2026
#21 across Synthetic fibre (5) 30th April 2026
#16 across Light on something silky (5) 10th March 2026
#22 across Synthetic fibre (5) 1st March 2026
#10 across With light on, looks silky (5) 14th January 2026
#28 down Synthetic fibre (5) 9th October 2025
#20 down Synthetic fibre (5) 15th September 2025
#20 down Art silk or any variant (5) 18th August 2025
#19 across Synthetic fibre (5) 4th August 2025
#14 down Synthetic fibre (5) 24th May 2025
#12 across With light on, it looks silky (5) 6th May 2025
#26 across Light on something silky (5) 4th May 2025
#28 down Synthetic fibre (5) 29th April 2025
#28 down Synthetic fibre (5) 25th February 2025
#28 down With light on, it looks silky (5) 25th February 2025
#18 down Light on artificial silk (5) 23rd January 2025
#12 across Synthetic fibre (5) 20th November 2024
#26 across Material (5) 2nd October 2024
#27 down Smooth stuff a bright boy gets ahead with (5) 19th September 2024
#26 across Light on something silky (5) 12th February 2024
#22 down Fabric (5) 26th October 2023
#27 down Synthetic fibre (5) 7th August 2023
#27 down Light on artificial silk (5) 15th June 2023
#33 down Material (5) 24th March 2023
#28 down Synthetic fibre (5) 29th December 2022
#26 across Synthetic fibre (5) 20th December 2022
#19 across Synthetic fibre (5) 23rd November 2022
#20 down Ran out of material! (5) 17th October 2022
#10 across Light on something silky (5) 6th September 2022
#21 down Synthetic fibre (5) 27th July 2022
#24 across Material (5) 16th May 2022
#12 across Synthetic fibre (5) 4th April 2022
#21 down Light on something silky (5) 28th February 2022
#30 down The light ahead is an artificial product (5) 2nd December 2021
#22 across Synthetic fibre (5) 13th October 2021
#21 down Synthetic fibre (5) 16th August 2021
#21 down Synthetic fibre (5) 5th April 2021
#21 across Synthetic fibre (5) 10th February 2021
#16 across Light on something silky (5) 25th November 2020

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#4 across Roughly treated by a gang with a plot (6)
#4 down His stinginess upsets me sir! (5)
#5 down There's nothing in a half bottle to give you a kick (4)
#6 down Runs without running (6)
#7 across She wove a hair mat (4,4)
#8 across Hardly bags to drink (6)
#9 down Container of something topping (6)
#10 across Stamp a letter, we understand (5)