Brief craze
The crossword clue "Brief craze" is answered by FAD, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FAD
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FAD answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; 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 FAD
Every other clue in this collection answered by FAD, most used first.
- Craze - used 126 times, most recently in 2026
- Passing craze - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Rage - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Passing fancy - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
- Short-lived craze - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Short-lived trend - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- In thing - used 16 times, most recently in 2020
- Fleeting trend - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Fashion that doesn't last - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Fleeting fashion - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Passing trend - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Vogue - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Short-lived fashion - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Short-lived obsession - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Temporary craze - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Brief rage - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Current craze - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- It doesn't last - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Pet rocks, once - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Beanie Babies, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Beanie Babies, once - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Fleeting craze - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Mania - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Brief moment - SEC, used 79 times
- Brief time - SEC, used 54 times
- Brief drop - DIP, used 33 times
- Brief swim - DIP, used 26 times
- Belief, in brief - ISM, used 20 times
- Brief time out - NAP, used 19 times
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