Whole mess
The crossword clue "Whole mess" is answered by SLEW, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 3 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLEW
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLEW answer page.
Used 7 times across 3 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for SLEW
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLEW, most used first.
- Whole bunch - used 168 times, most recently in 2026
- Whole lot - used 77 times, most recently in 2026
- Murdered - used 55 times, most recently in 2023
- Large quantity - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Did in - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Large number - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Boatload - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Large amount - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Passel - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Killed - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Killed, as a dragon - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Multitude - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Bunch - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Did in, as a dragon - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Dispatched - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Host - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Scads - used 16 times, most recently in 2001
- Whole bunch (of) - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Huge amount - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Great number - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- A lot: Colloq. - used 13 times, most recently in 1968
- Plethora - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Big bunch - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Bumped off - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
- Oodles - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Great deal - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Large number: Colloq. - used 11 times, most recently in 1965
- Dispatched, as a dragon - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Slaughtered - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Triple Crown-winning horse Seattle ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Assassinated - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Did away with - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- Gobs - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Lot - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Vast number - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- A whole bunch - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Offed - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Raft - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Ton - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Whole heap - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Did away with, as a dragon - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Great quantity - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Triple Crown winner Seattle __ - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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.
- Whole bunch - SCAD, used 35 times
- A whole bunch - TONS, used 34 times
- Mess maker - SLOB, used 34 times
- The whole shebang - ATOZ, used 29 times
- A whole bunch - LOTS, used 27 times
- A whole lot - TONS, used 25 times
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