Major screw-up
The crossword clue "Major screw-up" is answered by SNAFU, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SNAFU
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SNAFU answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SNAFU
Every other clue in this collection answered by SNAFU, most used first.
- Big mess - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Major mix-up - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Major mess - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Chaotic situation - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Fly in the ointment - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
- Major muddle - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Foul-up - used 12 times, most recently in 2011
- Mix-up - used 12 times, most recently in 2011
- Muddled situation - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Muddlement - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
- Screw-up - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Muddle - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Chaotic mess - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Messy situation - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Hot mess - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Major glitch - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Big mix-up - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Huge mess - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Big glitch - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Confusion acronym - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Glitch - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Major malfunction - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Major artery - AORTA, used 132 times
- Major blood vessel - AORTA, used 92 times
- Major happening - EVENT, used 42 times
- Major vessel - AORTA, used 22 times
- Screw up - MISDO, used 20 times
- ___ Major - CANIS, used 15 times
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