Didn't hold water
The crossword clue "Didn't hold water" is answered by LEAKED, a 6-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. 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
LEAKED
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEAKED answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 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.
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