Blow a fuse, so to speak
The crossword clue "Blow a fuse, so to speak" is answered by ERUPT, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ERUPT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ERUPT answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ERUPT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ERUPT, most used first.
- Blow one's top - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
- Burst forth - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Break out - used 36 times, most recently in 2024
- Blow - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Spew lava - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Blow, as a volcano - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Explode - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Go off - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Blow one's stack - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Blow up - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Burst - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Go ballistic - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Blow like a volcano - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Blow a gasket - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Fly off the handle - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Lose one's cool - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Hit the roof - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Spew forth - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Boil over - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Lose one's temper - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Lose it - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Burst out. - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Flare up - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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.
- Blow away - AMAZE, used 87 times
- Speak - UTTER, used 80 times
- Speak one's mind - OPINE, used 54 times
- Speak pompously - ORATE, used 40 times
- Speak off the cuff - ADLIB, used 38 times
- Fuse - UNITE, used 25 times
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