Not make the grade
The crossword clue "Not make the grade" is answered by FAIL, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
FAIL
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FAIL answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FAIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by FAIL, most used first.
- Go belly up - used 32 times, most recently in 2023
- Fall short - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Flunk - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Get an F - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Come up short - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Be unsuccessful - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Go under - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Go bankrupt - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Epic ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Flunk out - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Disappoint. - used 7 times, most recently in 1986
- Give out - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Fall flat - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Miss the mark - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Not pass - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Strike out - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Wash out - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Not fooled by - ONTO, used 444 times
- Make over - REDO, used 404 times
- Up to the task - ABLE, used 397 times
- Not as much - LESS, used 378 times
- In the thick of - AMID, used 377 times
- On the briny - ASEA, used 364 times
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