A felony.
The crossword clue "A felony." is answered by ARSON, a 5-letter entry. Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 1989; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ARSON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARSON answer page.
Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 1989; first recorded in 1948. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ROBBERY (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ARSON
Every other clue in this collection answered by ARSON, most used first.
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- Firebug's crime - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Bad lighting? - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Pyromaniac's crime - used 60 times, most recently in 2025
- Fiery felony - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Fire-setting crime - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Burning desire? - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Hot crime - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Illegal firing? - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Incendiarism - used 23 times, most recently in 2019
- Burning crime - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Malicious burning - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
- Torch job - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Match play? - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Incendiary crime - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Property crime - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Certain crime - used 11 times, most recently in 1976
- Illegal burning - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Felonious flames - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Torch's crime - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
- Unlawful firing? - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Fire crime - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Firebug's felony - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Firing offense? - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Heated crime? - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- Pyro's passion - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- "Backdraft" crime - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Fire-related crime - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Flaming felony - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Felony - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Fire-starting crime - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Firebug's offense - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Hot pursuit? - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Torcher's misdeed - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
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- Felony - CRIME, used 13 times
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