Squalid urban area
The crossword clue "Squalid urban area" is answered by SLUM, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 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 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 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
- Squalid neighborhood - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Inner-city blight - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Squalid area - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
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.
- Church area - APSE, used 216 times
- Urban haze - SMOG, used 107 times
- Campus area - QUAD, used 93 times
- Church area - NAVE, used 83 times
- Urban pollution - SMOG, used 58 times
- Low-lying area - VALE, used 54 times
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