Traffic tie-up
The crossword clue "Traffic tie-up" is answered by JAM, a 3-letter entry. Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
JAM
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the JAM answer page.
Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for JAM
Every other clue in this collection answered by JAM, most used first.
- Bread spread - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Predicament - used 40 times, most recently in 2024
- Toast spread - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Toast topper - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Toast topping - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Printer problem - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Gridlock - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Tight spot - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Traffic snarl - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Pickle - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Copier problem - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Tough spot - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Traffic problem - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Fix - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Fruity spread - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Printer annoyance - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Traffic trouble - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Smucker's jarful - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Tie-up - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Wing it, musically - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Fruit spread - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Rock out - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Sweet bread spread - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- "That's my ___!" ("I love that song!") - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Tie the knot - WED, used 181 times
- Kimono tie - OBI, used 35 times
- Traffic caution - SLO, used 23 times
- "Traffic" org. - DEA, used 23 times
- Tie fabric - REP, used 19 times
- Traffic stopper - RED, used 19 times
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