Answer: FAIL
FAIL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 83 times.
Referring Clues:
- Flunk
- Go kaput
- Fall short
- Not work out
- Go bankrupt
- Come to naught
- Come up short
- Go belly up
- Strike out
- Wash out
- Without ___ (religiously)
- Blow it
- Go on the fritz
- Go under
- Miss the mark
- Opposite of pass
- Go down the tubes
- Don't pass
- Give
- Pass alternative
- Pass's opposite
- Not pass
- Bite the dust
- Give out
- Not cut it
- Need repair
- Go out of business
- Stop running, perhaps
- Not make the grade
- Earn no credit
- Fall flat
- Flunk out
- Tank
- Bomb
- Get an F
- Fall short of success
- With 55-Across, 58-/46-Across movie (1964)
- Be unsuccessful
- One may be epic
- Quit working
- Quit working
- Quit working
- Go belly-up
- Not even get a D
- Require a retest, maybe
- Become insolvent
- Need remedial courses
- Require a retest
- Do not pass
- Epic ___
- Conk out
- Stop working
- Comes up short
- Not make the grade?
- Go pfft
- Need to retake in summer school, say
- Get no credit, in a way
- Pass opposite
- Pass or ___
- Poop out
- Go up in smoke
- Get no credit for, in school
- Crash and burn
- Not work
- Get 29-Across
- Safe preceder
- Be triumphant? No
- Epic ___: disaster
- How to repeat a grade
- Bomb, as a midterm
- Come to nothing
- Pass-___ (course type)
- Not get above 60, say
- Not succeed
- Not pass, in school
- Hold for another year, say
- Do poorly
- Get an F on
- Flop
- Conks out
- Word in many a YouTube title
- Epic ___ (embarrassing blunder)
- F that comes right after A, B, C and D
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 13, 2025
- New York Times - August 04, 2025
- New York Times - June 22, 2025
- USA Today - May 07, 2025
- New York Times - October 15, 2024
- USA Today - July 24, 2024
- LA Times - June 09, 2024
- USA Today - March 13, 2024
- USA Today - February 13, 2024
- New York Times - January 16, 2024
- USA Today - August 25, 2023
- LA Times - August 20, 2023
- LA Times - September 21, 2022
- USA Today - September 15, 2022
- LA Times - April 21, 2022
- LA Times - January 01, 2021
- New York Times - December 18, 2020
- USA Today - December 18, 2020
- Universal - September 18, 2020
- USA Today - July 15, 2020
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