Down with a bug
The crossword clue "Down with a bug" is answered by ILL, a 3-letter entry. Used 21 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ILL
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ILL answer page.
Used 21 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ILL
Every other clue in this collection answered by ILL, most used first.
- Under the weather - used 536 times, most recently in 2026
- Sick - used 171 times, most recently in 2026
- Unwell - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
- Suffering - used 112 times, most recently in 2026
- Not well - used 100 times, most recently in 2026
- Ailing - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
- Out of sorts - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
- Poorly - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Not feeling well - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Indisposed - used 47 times, most recently in 2023
- Feeling poorly - used 41 times, most recently in 2024
- Laid up - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Adverse - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
- Not in the pink - used 32 times, most recently in 2020
- "___ say!" - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Badly - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- "Well, ___ be!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2024
- Green around the gills - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ at ease - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Off one's feed - used 24 times, most recently in 2020
- "___ be the judge of that" - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- In poor health - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Feeling sick - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Down with something - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Chow down - EAT, used 257 times
- Chowed down - ATE, used 231 times
- Have a bug - AIL, used 201 times
- Down in the dumps - SAD, used 198 times
- Plopped down - SAT, used 194 times
- With it - HIP, used 149 times
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