Exploded, as a tire

The answer

BLEW

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BLEW answer page.

Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1988. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BLEW

Every other clue in this collection answered by BLEW, most used first.

• Huffed and puffed - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Squandered - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Gusted - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Botched - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Erupted - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Exploded - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Squandered, as a lead - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Played a trumpet - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Used a Breathalyzer - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Puffed. - used 8 times, most recently in 2005
• Totally bungled - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Emulated Gabriel - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Muffed - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Tooted - used 7 times, most recently in 1998
• Lost, as a big lead - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Played the trumpet - 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.

• Spare tire - FLAB, used 28 times
• Tire holders - RIMS, used 15 times
• Tire - FLAG, used 11 times
• __-ply tire - BIAS, used 10 times
• Spare tire, so to speak - FLAB, used 10 times
• Tire (out) - POOP, used 10 times

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