Underdog's win
The crossword clue "Underdog's win" is answered by UPSET, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
UPSET
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UPSET answer page.
Used 16 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for UPSET
Every other clue in this collection answered by UPSET, most used first.
- Surprise win - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Surprise victory - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Unexpected victory - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Unexpected win - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Rattled - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Sports surprise - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Underdog's victory - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Unexpected defeat - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Sports shocker - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Capsize - used 17 times, most recently in 2019
- Overturn - used 17 times, most recently in 2018
- Disturbed - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Distressed - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Not happy - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Knock over - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Underdog victory - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- 100-to-1 underdog's victory - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Miffed - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Surprising victory - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Unexpected outcome - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Distraught - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Election surprise - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Improbable win - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Perturb - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Perturbed - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Surprising win - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Topple - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
- Underdog's goal - used 6 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.
- Win by ___ - ANOSE, used 103 times
- Win every game - SWEEP, used 39 times
- "You win" - ILOSE, used 37 times
- Win by ___ - ANECK, used 9 times
- Win every game in a series - SWEEP, used 9 times
- Tried to win - WOOED, used 8 times
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