Hosp. area for critical cases

The answer

ICU

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

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ICU

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

• Hosp. area - used 172 times, most recently in 2026
• Hosp. section - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
• Post-op area - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Post-op stop - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Hosp. ward - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Critical hosp. area - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Hospital dept. - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Post-ER place - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Post-OR area - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Post-op locale - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Post-O.R. stop - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Post-ER area - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• "ER" setting - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• RN assignment - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Place for TLC - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Post-op destination - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Post-OR stop - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• RN's assignment - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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.

• For each - PER, used 391 times
• "For shame!" - TSK, used 208 times
• Hosp. areas - ORS, used 206 times
• Hosp. areas - ERS, used 204 times
• Back muscle, for short - LAT, used 189 times
• Tit for ___ - TAT, used 189 times

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