"Apocalypse Now" setting

The answer

NAM

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NAM answer page.

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NAM

Every other clue in this collection answered by NAM, most used first.

• "Platoon" setting - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• '60s war zone - used 61 times, most recently in 2025
• "Platoon" setting, briefly - used 31 times, most recently in 2024
• "Platoon" locale - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
• "Miss Saigon" setting - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• "Platoon" setting, for short - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• '60s hot spot - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• "Miss Saigon" setting, briefly - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• '60s conflict site - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Viet ___ - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• '60s war zone, briefly - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• '60s war zone, for short - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• '60s war zone, informally - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Manufacturers' group. - used 8 times, most recently in 1961
• "Platoon" war zone - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• '60s service site - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• '70s war zone - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "Apocalypse Now" setting, briefly - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• "China Beach" setting - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• SE Asian war - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Where many vets served - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• Before now - AGO, used 273 times
• "Now I get it!" - AHA, used 182 times
• Up to now - YET, used 116 times
• "Now ___ seen everything!" - IVE, used 99 times
• "___ now or never!" - ITS, used 81 times
• "And now, without further ___ ..." - ADO, used 80 times

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