Clunker
The crossword clue "Clunker" is answered by DUD, a 3-letter entry. Used 21 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DUD
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DUD answer page.
Used 21 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 8 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.
- OLDCAR (4 uses in xd)
Other clues for DUD
Every other clue in this collection answered by DUD, most used first.
- Flop - used 113 times, most recently in 2026
- Failure - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Lemon - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Turkey - used 22 times, most recently in 2014
- Washout - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
- Defective firecracker - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Fizzler - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Faulty firecracker - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Fizzled firecracker - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
- Bomb of a bomb - used 12 times, most recently in 2011
- Total flop - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Failed firecracker - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Commercial flop - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Firecracker that doesn't go off - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Producer's fear - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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