Go on the fritz
The crossword clue "Go on the fritz" is answered by ACTUP, a 5-letter entry. Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus.
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ACTUP
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Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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