Short-lived craze
The crossword clue "Short-lived craze" is answered by MANIA, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MANIA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MANIA answer page.
Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2016. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for MANIA
Every other clue in this collection answered by MANIA, most used first.
- Craze - used 202 times, most recently in 2026
- Excessive enthusiasm - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Obsession - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Frenzy - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Rage - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Excessive excitement - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Extreme enthusiasm - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Fad - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Intense enthusiasm - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- It's all the rage - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Widespread craze - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Wild enthusiasm - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Major fad - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Suffix with Beatle or Wrestle - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Enthusiasm, plus - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Extreme obsession - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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