Widespread craze

The answer

MANIA

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MANIA answer page.

Used 9 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Short-lived craze - 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
• 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

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.

• Widespread destruction - HAVOC, used 10 times
• Craze. - FUROR, used 8 times
• Not widespread - LOCAL, used 8 times
• Widespread - BROAD, used 7 times
• '60s dance craze - TWIST, used 6 times
• More widespread - RIFER, used 6 times

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