Hopeless, as a situation
The crossword clue "Hopeless, as a situation" is answered by NOWIN, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NOWIN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOWIN answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for NOWIN
Every other clue in this collection answered by NOWIN, most used first.
- Kind of situation - used 14 times, most recently in 2015
- Like some situations - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Lose-lose - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Like a hopeless situation - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Hopeless - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Bad kind of situation - 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.
- Hopeless case - GONER, used 61 times
- Chaotic situation - SNAFU, used 19 times
- Hopeless - NOUSE, used 12 times
- Muddled situation - SNAFU, used 12 times
- Messy situation - SNAFU, used 10 times
- Do-__ situation - ORDIE, used 9 times
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