The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word FLOP which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Bomb crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| FLOP | 30 % | 4 |
| FAILURE | 16 % | 7 |
| FAIL | 9 % | 4 |
| LAYANEGG | 9 % | 8 |
| FIASCO | 9 % | 6 |
| TURKEY | 7 % | 6 |
| DISASTER | 5 % | 8 |
| DUD | 5 % | 3 |
| GRENADE | 2 % | 7 |
| FLAMEOUT | 2 % | 8 |
| EGG | 2 % | 3 |
| AEROSOLCAN | 2 % | 10 |
| QUARTERBACKSLONGPASS | 2 % | 20 |
Why may FLAMEOUT be the right solution?
"Flameout" can refer to a type of engine failure in which the flame in a jet engine is extinguished, causing the engine to shut down. This can be seen as a type of "bomb" in the sense that it causes a sudden and unexpected failure.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bomb
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- bombard
- bomb calorimeter
- flunk
- dud
- fail
- turkey
- flush it
- warhead
- nuke
- blockbuster
- powerhouse
- rocket
Crossword Answer definitions
FLOP noun- An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
- A flophouse.
- To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- To cause to drop heavily.
- To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- Right, squarely, flat-out.
- With a flopping sound.
- Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.
- One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result FLOP
- Broadway bomb
- Turkey
- Big money loser
- Expensive bomb
- Max Bialystock's hope
- Bomb of a show
- Foul play?
- Do poorly at the theater
- Broadway failure
- Turkey on the stage
More clues leading to the result FAILURE
- Dud
- Part three of quote
- Lack of success
- Kakorrhaphiophobe's fear
- Bomb
- Theme of this puzzle
- What "you always pass ... on your way to success": Mickey Rooney
- Insolvency.
- Ruin.
- Falling short.
More clues leading to the result FAIL
- Go down the tubes
- Go pfft!
- Opposite of ace
- Go downhill
- Flunk
- Go belly-up
- Epic ___
- Go pfft big time
- Fall short
- Disappoint
More clues leading to the result LAYANEGG
- Bomb big-time
- Succeed in a coop, or fail in most else
- Die on the stage
- Bomb
- Bomb on stage
- Fail big-time
- Bomb on Broadway
- Flop
More clues leading to the result FIASCO
- Big mess
- SNAFU
- Utter failure
- Lead balloon
- Big flop
- Spectacular failure
- Unmitigated disaster
- Huge flop
- Debacle
- Complete catastrophe
More clues leading to the result TURKEY
- Flop
- Dud
- Bomb
- Opposite of smash
- Interested spectator of the Dodecanese.
- Controller of the Dardanelles.
- Inonu's country.
- His days are numbered.
- November symbol.
- Box office flop.
More clues leading to the result DISASTER
- Catastrophe
- Type of area or film
- Irwin Allen film plot device
- Flood, say
- Utter failure
- Earthquake, perhaps
- Fiasco
- Big turkey
- Bomb
- Calamity
More clues leading to the result DUD
- Flop
- Total failure
- Bomb of a bomb
- Fiasco
- Washout
- Bummer
- Independence Day no-show?
- Spectacular failure
- Total misfire
- Turkey
More clues leading to the result GRENADE
- Small exploder
- "Pineapple"
- Hurled explosive
- Explosive shell
- Small explosive shell
- It has a safety pin
- Small shell
- Pineapple with a pin
- Explosive shell thrown by hand
- Explosive hand shell.
More clues leading to the result FLAMEOUT
More clues leading to the result EGG
- Cackleberry
- Embarrassing facial covering?
- Faberge creation
- Goose __ (zero)
- Incite to action, (with on)
- It can be beaten
- Kind of roll or toss
- Object of a hunt
- Omelet ingredient
- Poacher's acquisition?