The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FIASCO , but the solution may also be FLOP which is one of the most recent solution (2022 in New York Times).
Complete failure crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| FIASCO | 42 % | 6 |
| FLOP | 30 % | 4 |
| BUST | 6 % | 4 |
| BOMB | 6 % | 4 |
| DUD | 3 % | 3 |
| FISCO | 3 % | 5 |
| DEBACLE | 3 % | 7 |
| LEADBALLOON | 3 % | 11 |
| WASHOUT | 3 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Complete failure
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- debacle
- disaster
- catastrophe
- calamity
- toll
- tragedy
- natural disaster
- big one
- thunderbolt
- catastrophic
- door
- cataclysmic
Crossword Answer definitions
FIASCO noun- A sudden or unexpected failure.
- A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
- A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
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 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 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 BUST
- Failure
- Sculptor's creation
- Sculpture
- It's put on a pedestal
- First-round draft pick that goes nowhere
- Hourglass part?
- Police raid
- Utter failure
- Marble head?
- Sculptor's portrait
More clues leading to the result BOMB
- Box office flop
- Die, on stage
- Fail at the box office
- Fail big-time
- Turkey
- Broadway turkey
- Explosive
- Broadway flop
- Utter flop
- Filmdom flop
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 FISCO
More clues leading to the result DEBACLE
- Total fiasco
- Sudden downfall
- Total flop
- Fiasco
- Complete disaster
- Complete failure
- Total disaster
- Stampede.
- General breakup.
- Sudden disaster.
More clues leading to the result LEADBALLOON
- Winner in a hot-air-fueled race?
- Figurative flop
- Utter failure, figuratively
- Flop, figuratively
- *A total failure "goes over like" one
- *Metaphor for a failure
- Symbolic sinker
- Bad idea, so to speak
- Metaphorical flop
- It won't go over well