Muscle spasm
The crossword clue "Muscle spasm" is answered by CRAMP, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CRAMP
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CRAMP answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for CRAMP
Every other clue in this collection answered by CRAMP, most used first.
- Swimmer's woe - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Muscle woe - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Charley horse, e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Muscle malady - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Restrict - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Swimmer's bane - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Writer's ___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Writer's problem - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Charley horse - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Hamper - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Marathoner's woe - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Muscle twitch - SPASM, used 45 times
- Spasm - THROE, used 37 times
- Muscle contraction - SPASM, used 28 times
- Muscle - SINEW, used 22 times
- Muscle-bone connector - SINEW, used 19 times
- Muscle protein - ACTIN, used 19 times
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