Bad grades
The crossword clue "Bad grades" is answered by DEES, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. 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
DEES
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEES answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for DEES
Every other clue in this collection answered by DEES, most used first.
- Poor grades - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Ruby and Sandra - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Barely passing grades - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Letters. - used 24 times, most recently in 1974
- Sandra and Ruby - used 22 times, most recently in 2021
- Low grades - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Near-failing grades - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- "Disco Duck" singer Rick - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Low marks - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Middle's middle - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Bad marks - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- GPA spoilers - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Poor marks - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Unenviable grades - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
Related clues
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- Goes bad - ROTS, used 226 times
- "My bad!" - OOPS, used 191 times
- "Too bad!" - ALAS, used 136 times
- Bad to the bone - EVIL, used 115 times
- Bad day for Caesar - IDES, used 89 times
- Bad mood - SNIT, used 67 times
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