Screw up
The crossword clue "Screw up" is answered by BOTCH, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BOTCH
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BOTCH answer page.
Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for BOTCH
Every other clue in this collection answered by BOTCH, most used first.
- Bungle - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Mess up - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Make a mess of - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Foul up - used 8 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.
- Screw up - MISDO, used 20 times
- Screw-up - SNAFU, used 12 times
- Screw-up - ERROR, used 10 times
- Major screw-up - SNAFU, used 7 times
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