Kind of situation
The crossword clue "Kind of situation" is answered by NOWIN, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 5 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 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1993. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NOWIN
Every other clue in this collection answered by NOWIN, most used first.
- Like some situations - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Lose-lose - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Hopeless, as a situation - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- 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.
- Kind of acid - AMINO, used 116 times
- Kind of committee - ADHOC, used 102 times
- Kind of wave - TIDAL, used 74 times
- Kind of energy - SOLAR, used 67 times
- Kind of boom - SONIC, used 65 times
- Kind of drum - SNARE, used 64 times
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