Zap in the microwave
The crossword clue "Zap in the microwave" is answered by NUKE, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
NUKE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NUKE answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for NUKE
Every other clue in this collection answered by NUKE, most used first.
- Microwave - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Zap - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Heat in the microwave - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Microwave, slangily - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Microwave, informally - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Zap in a microwave - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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