Producer's fear

The answer

DUD

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

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 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
• 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

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.

• Producer's hope - HIT, used 12 times
• "Fear and Loathing in ___ Vegas" - LAS, used 10 times
• Producer's dream - HIT, used 10 times
• Reverential fear - AWE, used 9 times
• Cry of fear - EEK, used 6 times

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