The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ERR , but the solution may also be SNAFU which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Screw up crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ERR | 47 % | 3 |
| MISDO | 16 % | 5 |
| SNAFU | 6 % | 5 |
| BOTCH | 6 % | 5 |
| BONER | 5 % | 5 |
| BLOWIT | 4 % | 6 |
| ERROR | 4 % | 5 |
| MUFF | 2 % | 4 |
| FLUB | 2 % | 4 |
| MISHANDLE | 1 % | 9 |
| RUIN | 1 % | 4 |
| BUNGLE | 1 % | 6 |
| LOUSE | 1 % | 5 |
| BOLLIX | 1 % | 6 |
| GOOF | 1 % | 4 |
| FLUFF | 1 % | 5 |
Why may SNAFU be the right solution?
"SNAFU" is a military acronym that stands for "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up". It is used to describe a chaotic or dysfunctional situation. Therefore, "screw-up" is an appropriate synonym for "SNAFU".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Screw up
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- foul up
- mess up
- blunder
- botch
- flub
- bungle
- fumble
- bobble
- bollix
- mishandle
- blow
- fluff
Crossword Answer definitions
ERR verb- To make a mistake.
- To sin.
- To stray.
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 ERR
- Be human
- Be human?
- Be off the mark
- Be sadly mistaken
- Blow it
- Do the wrong thing
- Drop a popup
- Go astray
- Go wrong
- Goof
More clues leading to the result MISDO
More clues leading to the result SNAFU
- Confusion acronym
- Big mistake
- Bollix
- Big mess
- Bad spot
- Big hiccup
- Big muddle
- Big problem
- Confused situation
- Huge screwup
More clues leading to the result BOTCH
More clues leading to the result BONER
- Botch-up
- Goof
- Huge blunder
- Error
- Big boo-boo
- Huge flub-up
- Piece of morningwood
- Humongous goof-up
- Knucklehead's play
- Stupid mistake
More clues leading to the result BLOWIT
- Mess up
- Botch the job
- Totally screw up
- Mess up a good opportunity
- Really mess things up, and what you might do to the last word of 24- or 51-Across, or 10-, 14-, or 34-Down
- Screw up
- Botch the opportunity
- Lose when you should have won, and a hint to the start of the answers to starred clues
- Fail epically
- Miscalculate
More clues leading to the result ERROR
- Box-score bobble
- Misstep
- Mistake
- Partner of trial
- "E" in the box score
- Baseballer's nightmare
- Dropped fly, e.g.
- Faux pas
- Programming bug, perhaps
- Slip-up
More clues leading to the result MUFF
- Bungle
- Mishandle
- Fail to catch
- Bobble
- Botch
- Handle clumsily
- Furry handwarmer
- Hand warmer
- Ear covering
- Hand cover
More clues leading to the result FLUB
- Bungle
- Embarrassing error
- Err
- Outtake material
- Mishandle
- Blunder
- Botch
- Make an error
- Execute poorly
- Bollux up
More clues leading to the result MISHANDLE
More clues leading to the result RUIN
- Destroy
- Destroyed building
- Downfall
- Reduce to bankruptcy
- The road to __
- Destruction
- Completely botch
- Spoil
- Bankrupt
- Excavation site
More clues leading to the result BUNGLE
- Be all thumbs
- Make a mess of
- Mess up
- Botch
- Muck up
- Make a botch.
- Do clumsily.
- Be all thumbs.
- Totally screw up
- Screw up
More clues leading to the result LOUSE
- __ up (bungle)
- Vile character
- Wingless parasite
- No-goodnik
- Cad
- Sleazebag
- Big nit
- No-good guy
- Real stinker
- Dirty rat
More clues leading to the result BOLLIX
More clues leading to the result GOOF
- Make a boo-boo
- Silly typo, e.g.
- Foul-up
- Blunder
- Pull a boner
- Make a mistake
- Careless mistake
- Mistake
- Screwup
- Blow it