Backup cause
The crossword clue "Backup cause" is answered by CLOG, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CLOG
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CLOG answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CLOG
Every other clue in this collection answered by CLOG, most used first.
- Stop up - used 39 times, most recently in 2020
- Drain problem - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Plumbing problem - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Wooden shoe - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Drain blockage - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Obstruct - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Thick-soled shoe - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Pipe problem - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Kind of dance. - used 15 times, most recently in 2004
- Drano target - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Wooden-soled shoe - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Blockage - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Block - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Heavy shoe - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Choke up - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Drain obstruction - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Plumber's challenge - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Type of dance. - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
- Block up - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Jam up - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Problem for a plumber - 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.
- Cause of ruin - BANE, used 43 times
- Underlying cause - ROOT, used 33 times
- Prez's backup - VEEP, used 25 times
- Cause for a lawsuit - TORT, used 21 times
- Cause of a bad air day - SMOG, used 17 times
- Cause of distress - BANE, used 16 times
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