Urban problem
The crossword clue "Urban problem" is answered by SMOG, a 4-letter entry. Used 17 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SMOG
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMOG answer page.
Used 17 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1953. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for SMOG
Every other clue in this collection answered by SMOG, most used first.
- Air pollution - used 130 times, most recently in 2026
- Urban haze - used 107 times, most recently in 2026
- Urban pollution - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Urban air pollution - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Skyline obscurer - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Pollution portmanteau - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Urban blight - used 28 times, most recently in 2015
- Pollution problem - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Visible air pollution - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- EPA concern - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- Cause of a bad air day - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Weather word. - used 15 times, most recently in 2000
- Polluted air - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Skyline haze - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Urban woe - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
- Visibility reducer - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Urban pall - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
- Air pollutant - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Bad air - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Dirty air - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Air quality concern - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Big city problem - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- City haze - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of alert - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
- Feature of a bad air day - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Urban pollutant - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- City problem - used 7 times, most recently in 1983
- L.A. problem - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Portmanteau word - used 7 times, most recently in 1991
- Urban air problem - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Air quality problem - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Environmental concern - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Unhealthy air - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Urban bane - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Urban hazard - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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