Promo overkill
The crossword clue "Promo overkill" is answered by HYPE, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2008. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HYPE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HYPE answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2008. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HYPE
Every other clue in this collection answered by HYPE, most used first.
- Excessive publicity - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Ballyhoo - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Overblown publicity - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Hoopla - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Exaggerated publicity - used 13 times, most recently in 2021
- Promote aggressively - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Extravagant publicity - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Talk up - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Build up - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Exaggerated fanfare - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Big buildup - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Buzz - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Excessive promotion - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Overdone publicity - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Flashy promotion - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Promote excessively - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Puffery - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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