Screw-up
The crossword clue "Screw-up" is answered by SNAFU, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 9 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 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- 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
- Major screw-up - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- 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
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