Answer: BAD
BAD is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 226 times.
Referring Clues:
- Good, in street talk
- Opposite of 42-Across
- Spoiled
- Defective
- Ill-done
- Evil
- Dog-scolding word
- Dog reprimand
- Scolding word
- Harmful
- Already turned
- Deserving a spanking
- Good, in the 'hood
- Corrupt
- "___ dog!"
- Rotten
- Word to a dog
- Mischievous
- Misbehaving
- Ill-behaved
- One-star
- Failing
- Scolding word to a dog
- Lousy
- No longer edible
- Naughty
- Nonfunctioning
- Slutty
- Stern word to Spot
- With 2-Down, what a villain may come to
- Severe
- Uncooperative
- Reprimand to a dog
- 1987 hit for Michael Jackson
- 1987 Michael Jackson hit
- Like the wolf that tormented the three little pigs
- Very good, slangily
- 1987 Michael Jackson smash
- Like Leroy Brown
- Quip: Part 3
- 17-Across, to you and me
- Follow-up to "Thriller"
- "My ___!" ("Oops!")
- Good, ironically, in slang
- Rotten to the core
- Nefarious
- Word before egg or luck
- Follow-up to the "Thriller" album
- Like Leroy Brown, so the song says
- Inclement
- In trouble, with "off"
- Fourth-rate
- Sinister
- Wicked
- George Thorogood stutter "B-B-B-B-___..."
- Disobedient
- 1987 album with five #1 hits
- With 1-Down, something unlikely to pay off
- Low-quality
- Unhealthy
- Like some tempers
- Counterfeit
- Poor
- Unsatisfactory
- No good
- Sort of seed
- Poorly behaved
- Behaving poorly
- No longer fresh
- Poor-quality
- Poorer than poor
- Not well-behaved
- Awful
- Word with ''blood'' or ''dog''
- It came after ''Thriller''
- Word with "blood" or "dog"
- Like a fairy-tale wolf
- ''Thriller'' follower
- Word with ''egg'' or ''luck''
- Michael Jackson hit
- ''___ dog!''
- Word with blood or boy
- Good and ugly partner
- Inedible
- Good, on the street
- Michael Jackson album
- Like some apples
- Reprimand to Rover
- *Michael Jackson, 1987
- Word with "egg" or "luck"
- Certainly not good
- Word with "blood" or "luck"
- Good in the 'hood
- 1987 Michael Jackson album
- Inadequate
- Like some judgment
- Unfit to eat
- Not fresh
- Ready for compost heap
- "Thriller" follower
- It came after "Thriller"
- Reprehensible
- Like Peck's boy
- Good, to some
- Inauspicious
- Abysmal
- 1987 Michael Jackson single from an album of the same name
- 1987 Michael Jackson single
- U2 song about "Spider-Man" in general?
- Disobedient, as a dog
- With 18-Across, no-goodnik
- Foul
- Cameron Diaz's "___ Teacher"
- Terrible
- Malicious
- Unsuitable
- Yucky
- Disgraceful
- Disgusting
- Contemptible
- Troublesome
- Horrible
- Nasty
- Wretched
- Sinful
- "Tsk! Tsk!"
- Great, in slang
- Michael Jackson chart topper
- With 62-Down, rotten sort
- Fifth-rate
- Deserving detention, say
- Like a rotten apple
- ___ Blake (Oscar-winning role for Jeff Bridges)
- Like a bunch-spoiling apple
- Song parodied by "Fat"
- Maleficent
- Fraudulent, say
- Unfavorable
- Rancid, say
- Admonishment to a puppy
- Loathsome
- Song performed by U2 at Live Aid in 1985, and a single for Michael Jackson in 1987
- Like some news
- Word with "blood" or "egg"
- Past the expiration date
- See 34-Across
- Down the tubes
- "Breaking ___" (AMC series)
- Good, in some cases
- Crummy
- Like stormy weather
- Kind of vibes?
- With 54-Across, spa town on the Lahn River
- Malevolent
- Criminal
- Rancid
- Black-hearted
- Definitely not good
- Type of dog?
- Blasphemous
- Not good
- Hardly an angel
- Off, in the fridge
- Unenviable
- "Tsk, tsk!"
- Like 24-Down
- Tainted
- Not even so-so
- Pet scolder's adjective
- Pretty awful
- Detrimental or awful
- Opposite of good
- Putrescent
- Turned
- Good, in street lingo
- Word that can precede the first parts of 17-, 36- and 57-Across, and 11- and 32-Down
- Deleterious
- Serious, as an injury
- Unsound
- Word to a dog that has just chewed the sofa
- Villainous
- With 38-Across, hex that's hard to shake
- Like spoiled milk
- See 58-Down
- Disobedient, to Fido
- *Spoil
- Deserving to get gonged
- "Breaking ___"
- Past the "use by" date, perhaps
- "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very ___ Day": 2014 film
- Stale, say
- Past the expiration date, perhaps
- Big ___ Wolf
- Like a bounced check
- Halsey's "___ at Love"
- Word that oddly can mean "good" in slang
- Past its expiration date, perhaps
- Diamond-selling Michael Jackson album
- Past the expiration date, say
- Dreadful
- Rebuke to a dog
- Shoddy
- Word before "faith" or "luck"
- Rebuke to Marmaduke
- Deserving of a timeout, say
- Unwise, as a choice
- Go from ___ to worse
- "___ Guy": 2019 Billie Eilish #1 hit
- ___ vibes (uncomfy feelings)
- "Good Girl Gone ___" (Rihanna album)
- Michael Jackson hit whose title is heard 88 times in the song
- From ___ to worse
- Faulty
- Billie Eilish's "___ Guy"
- ___ to the bone (totally wicked)
- Past the "sell by" date, perhaps
- "I can make the ___ guys good for a weekend" (Taylor Swift lyric)
- "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very ___ Day"
- Word before "Habit" in a Steve Lacy song title or "Habits" in an Ed Sheeran song title
- Curt reprimand to a dog
- Base
- Michael Jackson's first concert tour after the Jackson 5
- Not great
- "___ Blood"
- "Now I'm down ___ crying at the gym"
- "___ was the blood of the song in the cab / On your first trip to L.A."
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 29, 2025
- USA Today - September 02, 2025
- USA Today - January 31, 2025
- New York Times - January 31, 2025
- New York Times - December 26, 2024
- USA Today - December 06, 2024
- LA Times - November 05, 2024
- New York Times - October 29, 2024
- LA Times - October 15, 2024
- USA Today - July 22, 2024
- New York Times - May 16, 2024
- LA Times - April 26, 2024
- USA Today - March 18, 2024
- New York Times - March 17, 2024
- New York Times - March 12, 2024
- USA Today - January 30, 2024
- USA Today - December 15, 2023
- New York Times - December 05, 2023
- USA Today - November 09, 2023
- USA Today - October 11, 2023
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