Brief affair
The crossword clue "Brief affair" is answered by FLING, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLING
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLING answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FLING
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLING, most used first.
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.
- Love affair - AMOUR, used 115 times
- Brief brawl - SETTO, used 42 times
- Brief - SHORT, used 30 times
- Brief fight - SETTO, used 29 times
- Brief appearance - CAMEO, used 26 times
- Brief argument - SETTO, used 25 times
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