The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word UPSET which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2016.
Election surprise crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters | 
|---|---|---|
| UPSET | 100 % | 5 | 
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Election surprise
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- upset
 - party
 - oct
 - ace
 - out
 - smear
 - trap
 - turn
 - ins
 - candidate
 - chad
 - dewey
 
Crossword Answer definitions
UPSET noun- Disturbance or disruption.
 - An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
 - (automobile insurance) An overturn.
 - An upset stomach.
 - An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
 - The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
 
- To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
 - To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
 - To tip or overturn (something).
 - To defeat unexpectedly.
 - To be upset or knocked over.
 - To set up; to put upright.
 - To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
 - To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
 
- (of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.
 - (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
 
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