Move quickly, as clouds

The answer

SCUD

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

Used 10 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1988. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SCUD

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

• Gulf War missile - used 130 times, most recently in 2025
• Desert Storm missile - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
• Move swiftly. - used 13 times, most recently in 2002
• Missile type - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Run before the wind. - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• Gust of wind - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Missile - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Run before a gale. - used 7 times, most recently in 2000
• Type of missile - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Gulf War weapon - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Iraqi missile - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Mideast missile - used 6 times, most recently in 2012

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.

• Dance move - STEP, used 190 times
• Read quickly - SCAN, used 133 times
• Move like molasses - OOZE, used 83 times
• Move, in Realtor lingo - RELO, used 66 times
• Move, in Realtor-speak - RELO, used 62 times
• Look over quickly - SCAN, used 57 times

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