Poetry competitions
The crossword clue "Poetry competitions" is answered by SLAMS, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLAMS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLAMS answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SLAMS
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLAMS, most used first.
- Bridge coups - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Criticizes - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Closes with a bang - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Bridge feats - used 14 times, most recently in 2018
- Shuts with force - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Closes loudly - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Shuts with a bang - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Bridge bids - used 8 times, most recently in 1976
- Criticizes harshly - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Shuts loudly - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Bangs shut - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Closes noisily - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Muse of poetry - ERATO, used 178 times
- Poetry Muse - ERATO, used 94 times
- Muse of love poetry - ERATO, used 77 times
- Muse of lyric poetry - ERATO, used 77 times
- Love poetry Muse - ERATO, used 29 times
- Poetry - VERSE, used 21 times
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