Fizzler

The answer

DUD

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

Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Clunker - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
• Washout - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
• Defective firecracker - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• 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

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.

• ___ Moines - DES, used 623 times
• German article - DER, used 316 times
• Morning moisture - DEW, used 269 times
• ___ Moines, Iowa - DES, used 256 times
• Agnus ___ - DEI, used 255 times
• Pop - DAD, used 244 times

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