"Miss Saigon" setting

The answer

NAM

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

Used 15 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 7 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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• VIETNAM (1 uses in xd)

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
• "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
• "Apocalypse Now" setting - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
• 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.

• ___ Miss - OLE, used 129 times
• Miss the mark - ERR, used 74 times
• Miss Piggy's pronoun - MOI, used 73 times
• Miss. neighbor - ALA, used 54 times
• "Cheers" setting - BAR, used 38 times
• Miss-named? - NEE, used 38 times

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