Answer: DECAY
DECAY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 44 times.
Referring Clues:
- Rot
 - Tooth trouble
 - Tooth problem
 - What spots on 1-Down show
 - Dental damage
 - Go bad, as teeth
 - Crumble away
 - Waste away
 - Cavity cause
 - Go to pot
 - See 18-Across
 - Break down
 - Dental concern
 - Get on with one's half-life?
 - Decompose
 - Fall into ruins
 - Deteriorate
 - Wear down
 - Dentist's concern, and a hint to what the longest answers have in common
 - Canine's woe?
 - Reason to drill
 - Dentist's detection
 - Dentist's discovery
 - Emulate a compost pile
 - Progressive decline
 - Cause of radioactivity
 - Go downhill
 - Become rotten
 - Putrefy
 - Dental problem
 - Go to pot ... or a phonetic hint to the answers to starred clues
 - Become compost
 - Dental woe
 - Exhibit radioactivity
 - Rust
 - Disintegrate
 - Radioactive process
 - Druxiness
 - Turn to compost
 - Radioactivity, essentially
 - Radioactivity action
 - Canine problem?
 - Exponential ___ (function in physics)
 - Radioisotope activity
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 01, 2024
 - LA Times - June 13, 2024
 - New York Times - December 26, 2023
 - USA Today - July 13, 2023
 - USA Today - August 22, 2022
 - USA Today - August 16, 2022
 - USA Today - June 10, 2022
 - USA Today - April 06, 2022
 - New York Times - March 12, 2022
 - New York Times - February 13, 2022
 - Universal - January 05, 2021
 - Netword - November 26, 2020
 - Netword - October 04, 2020
 - Universal - September 22, 2020
 - Netword - September 06, 2020
 - Universal - June 25, 2020
 - Universal - December 30, 2019
 - Universal - June 26, 2019
 - LA Times - May 02, 2019
 - New York Times - April 20, 2019
 
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