Squalid neighborhood
The crossword clue "Squalid neighborhood" is answered by SLUM, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLUM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLUM answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SLUM
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLUM, most used first.
- Urban renewal target - used 45 times, most recently in 2025
- Urban blight - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Run-down area - used 20 times, most recently in 2022
- Urban eyesore - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
- Blighted urban area - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Run-down neighborhood - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Inner-city blight - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Squalid area - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Squalid urban area - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Neighborhood - AREA, used 495 times
- In the neighborhood - NEAR, used 71 times
- London neighborhood - SOHO, used 36 times
- Manhattan neighborhood - SOHO, used 20 times
- Neighborhood food shop - DELI, used 19 times
- Big Apple neighborhood - SOHO, used 15 times
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