Fly apart
The crossword clue "Fly apart" is answered by BURST, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1975. 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
BURST
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BURST answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BURST
Every other clue in this collection answered by BURST, most used first.
- Pop - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Explode - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Exploded - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Pop, as a balloon - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Popped - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Rupture - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Break open - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Explosion - used 6 times, most recently in 2005
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.
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- Spread apart - SPLAY, used 19 times
- Fly in the ointment - SNAFU, used 17 times
- "___ Fly Now" ("Rocky" theme) - GONNA, used 15 times
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