Ford failure
The crossword clue "Ford failure" is answered by EDSEL, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EDSEL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EDSEL answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EDSEL
Every other clue in this collection answered by EDSEL, most used first.
- Ford flop - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- '50s Ford - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Henry Ford's son - used 44 times, most recently in 2022
- One of the Fords. - used 33 times, most recently in 2005
- A Ford - used 32 times, most recently in 2012
- Collectible car - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
- Car bomb? - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- '50s Ford flop - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Car of the '50s - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Bygone auto - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Detroit dud - used 17 times, most recently in 2017
- Ford - used 15 times, most recently in 1976
- Famous Ford flop - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Ford fiasco - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- New car of 1957 - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Bygone Ford - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- 1950s Ford flop - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Ill-fated Ford - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Son of Henry Ford - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Ford lemon - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Short-lived Ford model - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- '50s flop - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- 1950s Ford - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Car with a "horse collar" grille - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Henry Ford II's dad - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Henry's son - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
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.
- Tennessee __ Ford - ERNIE, used 31 times
- Memory failure - LAPSE, used 18 times
- Ford or Pyle - ERNIE, used 14 times
- A Ford - ERNIE, used 13 times
- "Failure ___ an option" - ISNOT, used 11 times
- Ford - ERNIE, used 11 times
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