Brief upturn
The crossword clue "Brief upturn" is answered by BLIP, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BLIP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BLIP answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BLIP
Every other clue in this collection answered by BLIP, most used first.
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- Radar dot - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Radar signal - used 37 times, most recently in 2018
- Radar screen spot - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Dot on a radar screen - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Radar screen dot - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Minor anomaly - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Spot on a radar screen - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Radar spot - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Image on a radar screen - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Minor deviation - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Radar reading - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Radar screen flash - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Brief moments - SECS, used 54 times
- Brief letter - NOTE, used 29 times
- Rudely brief - CURT, used 28 times
- And others, in brief - ETAL, used 22 times
- Brief quarrel - SPAT, used 17 times
- Brief note - MEMO, used 16 times
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