Complete failure
The crossword clue "Complete failure" is answered by FIASCO, a 6-letter entry. Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FIASCO
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FIASCO answer page.
Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for FIASCO
Every other clue in this collection answered by FIASCO, most used first.
- Debacle - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Total disaster - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Utter failure - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Complete disaster - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Total failure - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Flop - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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- Power failure - OUTAGE, used 22 times
- Complete a sentence - DOTIME, used 7 times
- Complete agreement - UNISON, used 7 times
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