Brief burst
The crossword clue "Brief burst" is answered by SPURT, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1976. 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
SPURT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SPURT answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1976. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SPURT
Every other clue in this collection answered by SPURT, most used first.
- Gush - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Sudden gush - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Sudden burst - used 15 times, most recently in 2021
- Jet - used 13 times, most recently in 2008
- Burst of growth - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Gush forth - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Sudden burst of growth - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Unexpected growth - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Sudden increase - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Growth _____ - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Brief brawl - SETTO, used 42 times
- Burst forth - ERUPT, used 39 times
- Brief - SHORT, used 30 times
- Brief fight - SETTO, used 29 times
- Brief appearance - CAMEO, used 26 times
- Brief argument - SETTO, used 25 times
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