Bomb blast, in headlines
The crossword clue "Bomb blast, in headlines" is answered by ATEST, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus.
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ATEST
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Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ATEST
Every other clue in this collection answered by ATEST, most used first.
- "This is only ___" - used 96 times, most recently in 2025
- Bikini blast - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
- Alamogordo event - used 25 times, most recently in 2015
- Blast from the past - used 22 times, most recently in 2020
- Engage in __ of wills - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Explosive experiment - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Bikini blast, briefly - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Alamogordo experiment - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Nuclear experiment - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Nuclear trial - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Bomb trial - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
- Engage in __ of strength - 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.
- Blast from the past - OLDIE, used 49 times
- Car bomb? - EDSEL, used 22 times
- Bikini blast, briefly - NTEST, used 11 times
- A-bomb trial - NTEST, used 10 times
- Battleship blast - SALVO, used 10 times
- Trumpet blast - BLARE, used 10 times
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