Downward spiral
The crossword clue "Downward spiral" is answered by TAILSPIN, a 8-letter entry. Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TAILSPIN
8 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAILSPIN answer page.
Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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