Near-failing grade

The answer

DEE

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEE answer page.

Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• DMINUS (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for DEE

Every other clue in this collection answered by DEE, most used first.

• Poor grade - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
• Scottish river - used 103 times, most recently in 2026
• Actress Ruby - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
• Ruby or Sandra - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
• Billy __ Williams - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
• Barely passing grade - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
• Actor Billy ___ Williams - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Low grade - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
• Actress Sandra - used 47 times, most recently in 2014
• Ruby of films - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Aberdeen's river - used 40 times, most recently in 2023
• Sandra or Ruby - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Letter. - used 29 times, most recently in 1997
• Wallace of "E.T." - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
• Poor mark - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Gidget portrayer Sandra - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• River in Scotland - used 20 times, most recently in 2016
• Ruby of "A Raisin in the Sun" - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Ruby of "Do the Right Thing" - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Balmoral Castle's river - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
• River near Balmoral Castle - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Sandra of "Gidget" - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Lando Calrissian player Billy ___ Williams - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Letter after cee - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Look at Me, I'm Sandra ___" - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Low mark - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• River of Scotland - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Ruby of film - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Singing Sandra - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Snider of Twisted Sister - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "Zip-A-___-Doo-Dah" - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Emmy winner Ruby - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Lousy grade - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "Mudbound" director Rees - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• "A Raisin in the Sun" star Ruby - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• English river. - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• "Look at Me, I'm Sandra ___" ("Grease" song) - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Unenviable grade - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Actress and civil rights activist Ruby - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Capital of Delaware - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Fourth letter - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Pee __ River - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• River to the North Sea - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Actress and activist Ruby - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Balmoral's river. - used 9 times, most recently in 2001
• Cee follower - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Hollywood ending? - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Just-passing grade - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Ruby of "American Gangster" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Singer Kiki - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• "Gidget" actress Sandra - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "Gidget" star Sandra - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• One of the Tweedles - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
• Report card bummer - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• 65 or so - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Actress Wallace-Stone - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Balmoral Castle river - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Civil rights activist Ruby - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• It's barely passing - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Ruby in the movies - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "A Summer Place" star - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Bad grade - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Grand finale? - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Irish Sea feeder - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Miller's river - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
• Ruby in films - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Sweet" role for Kaitlin - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Middling grade - CEE, used 84 times
• Average grade - CEE, used 72 times
• So-so grade - CEE, used 70 times
• Mediocre grade - CEE, used 44 times
• Sushi-grade tuna - AHI, used 33 times
• Near-eternity - EON, used 32 times

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