Minor deviation

The answer

BLIP

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2018. It appears in 6 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.

• Radar screen image - used 72 times, most recently in 2026
• Radar image - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• 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
• Brief upturn - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Image on a radar screen - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• 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.

• ___ Minor - URSA, used 113 times
• ___ Minor - ASIA, used 102 times
• Minor quarrel - SPAT, used 87 times
• Minor mistake - SLIP, used 40 times
• Minor argument - SPAT, used 38 times
• Major or Minor - URSA, used 30 times

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