Gives a bad review

The answer

PANS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PANS answer page.

Used 12 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PANS

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

• Skillets - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Bad reviews - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Cookware - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Kitchen utensils - used 14 times, most recently in 2007
• Cookware items - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Skillets and woks - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Scathing reviews - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Goes for the gold? - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Spiders. - used 10 times, most recently in 1968
• Gives a bad review to - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Gives zero stars to - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Kitchenware. - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
• Two-thumbs-down reviews - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Chef's collection - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Cook's collection - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Cooking vessels - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Criticizes - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Knocks - 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.

• Goes bad - ROTS, used 226 times
• "My bad!" - OOPS, used 191 times
• "Too bad!" - ALAS, used 136 times
• Bad to the bone - EVIL, used 115 times
• Bad day for Caesar - IDES, used 89 times
• Four-star review - RAVE, used 76 times

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