Poor marks

The answer

DEES

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEES answer page.

Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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 grades - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Bad marks - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• GPA spoilers - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Unenviable grades - used 7 times, most recently in 2019

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.

• "___, poor Yorick!" - ALAS, used 75 times
• "Poor me!" - ALAS, used 37 times
• Poor, as an excuse - LAME, used 36 times
• Money for the poor - ALMS, used 32 times
• "___ for the poor" - ALMS, used 31 times
• Easy marks - SAPS, used 29 times

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