Screw up
The crossword clue "Screw up" is answered by MISDO, a 5-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
MISDO
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MISDO answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for MISDO
Every other clue in this collection answered by MISDO, most used first.
- Botch - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Bungle - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Perform incorrectly - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Mess up - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Perform ineptly - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Make a mess of - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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.
- Screw-up - SNAFU, used 12 times
- Screw up - BOTCH, used 11 times
- Screw-up - ERROR, used 10 times
- Major screw-up - SNAFU, used 7 times
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