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The answer

FLU

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLU answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for FLU

Every other clue in this collection answered by FLU, most used first.

• Winter bug - used 129 times, most recently in 2026
• Winter ailment - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
• Winter woe - used 68 times, most recently in 2025
• Winter malady - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of shot - used 28 times, most recently in 2020
• Seasonal bug - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ shot - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Target of an annual vaccine - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Winter illness - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Seasonal ailment - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Grippe - used 14 times, most recently in 2011
• Annual vaccine target - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Seasonal malady - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Bird ___ - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Vaccine target - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Winter worry - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Wintertime bug - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Common ailment - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Seasonal illness - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Bug - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Seasonal vaccine target - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Wintertime ailment - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Asian ___ - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Seasonal affliction - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Shot target - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Type of shot - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Ailment with a "season" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Annual shot target - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Bug with its own season - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Seasonal strain - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Swine ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Viral illness - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Viral malady - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• "You bet!" - YES, used 166 times
• "What did I tell you?" - SEE, used 155 times
• "Give ___ rest!" - ITA, used 153 times
• Verb for you - ARE, used 139 times
• "Didn't I tell you?" - SEE, used 137 times
• "Shop ___ you drop" - TIL, used 123 times

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