Stop, as a launch
The crossword clue "Stop, as a launch" is answered by ABORT, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ABORT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABORT answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2012. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- Scrub - 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
- 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.
- Stop - CEASE, used 181 times
- Stop on ___ - ADIME, used 53 times
- Train stop - DEPOT, used 44 times
- Caravan stop - OASIS, used 40 times
- Elevator stop - FLOOR, used 40 times
- Sailor's "Stop!" - AVAST, used 35 times
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