Scrub
The crossword clue "Scrub" is answered by ABORT, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ABORT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABORT answer page.
Used 17 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for ABORT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ABORT, most used first.
- Cancel - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut short - used 28 times, most recently in 2013
- Scrub, as a mission - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Cancel, as a launch - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Cancel, as a mission - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Call off - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Scrub a mission - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- Cancel, as a rocket launch - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Cancel the launch - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Scrub, NASA-style - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Cancel a launch - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Mission-stopping command - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Scrub, at NASA - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Call off, at Canaveral - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Cancel, NASA-style - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- End early - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Scrap the mission - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Stop, as a launch - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Call off, as a mission - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Call off, at Cape Canaveral - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Cancel, to NASA - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Scrub the mission - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Scrub - SCOUR, used 29 times
- Scrub in the tub - BATHE, used 17 times
- Scrub thoroughly - SCOUR, used 11 times
- Scrub hard - SCOUR, used 8 times
- Really scrub - SCOUR, used 7 times
- Scrub - CLEAN, used 7 times
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