Clues for the word "BOMB"
We've had 152 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 242 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on March 05, 2026.
Definition of bomb
- n. - A great noise; a hollow sound.
- n. - A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.
- n. - A bomb ketch.
- v. t. - To bombard.
- v. i. - To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
Referring Clues
- Lay an egg
- Clunker
- Fiasco
- Big flop
- Long pass
- Long, high pass
- Screen flop
- TURKEY
- Less than a one-star movie
- Hit's opposite
- Fail miserably
- 0-star movie
- Complete flop
- Total flop
- "Ishtar" or "Heaven's Gate," famously
- Hollywood turkey
- Box office disaster
- It goes off with more than a pop
- Box office failure
- Do very badly
- Bunker buster
- Box-office flop
- Get little box office
- Explosive device
- Hydrogen, e.g.
- Perform poorly
- *Dud
- Immobile Stratego piece
- Tank
- Fall flat
- Blockbuster, e.g.
- Lay an egg, so to speak
- Failure
- Stage disaster
- Dud
- Zero-star movie
- Unsuccessful film
- Broadway flop
- Flop on stage
- Stage failure
- Filmdom flop
- Broadway stinkeroo
- Cinematic stinkeroo
- Broadway stinker
- Broadway turkey
- Hail Mary pass, usually
- "Waterworld" or "Ishtar," e.g.
- Fail to get laughs at The Improv
- Flop
- Belly-flop at the box office
- Fail at the box office
- Go over poorly
- Film flop
- "Rollerball" or "Battlefield Earth," e.g.
- Stink up the stage
- Strafe
- With cobalt, Invention of U of S scientists
- Tinseltown turkey
- Broadway failure
- Crash and burn
- Fail badly
- Movie flop
- See 8-Across
- Stage flop
- Flop on Broadway
- Bad news on Broadway
- Close on opening night
- What Bialystock and Bloom hoped for
- Long pass, in football
- Fail at the comedy club
- Box-office failure
- One with a terrible opening
- Wash out
- *Failure
- Screw up a bit?
- Blitz
- Dud, in Hollywood
- Theater flop
- Showbiz flop
- Fail as a stand-up comic
- Dud on stage
- Doomsday device
- Flame out
- Box-office dud
- Stinkeroo on Broadway
- Grenade
- Box-office turkey
- Critical disaster
- Utterly fail
- Foul play?
- Fail big-time
- Box office flop
- Broadway dud
- Theatrical fiasco
- "Fat Man" for one
- Fail ignominiously
- Explosive
- Movie dud
- Long football pass (with "the")
- Movie deserving no stars
- Disaster, like the four movies in the theme entries
- Film that makes no money
- Big flop at the box office
- "You Dropped a ___ On Me"
- Rancid "Time ___"
- See 18
- Great deal of money (slang)
- Doctor pursues hygiene issue, maybe mine
- See 8
- It may come down and go up
- Big bucks - flop
- Exploding device
- Unpleasant surprise
- Fare poorly at the comedy club
- (Of a theatre production) fail badly
- Load of money (slang)
- Long throw
- Fail at a comedy club
- Theatrical failure
- Time ___
- Do very poorly at the box office
- Hope to hide a million, which is mine
- It'll go with a bang - or else fail
- High cost of something dropped
- 75 Across helped build a big one
- Attack with explosive devices
- Have an epic fail
- "Speed" device
- Fail to draw an audience
- Utter flop
- "Gigli," e.g.
- Cinematic stinker
- Foul play?
- The high cost of terrorism?
- Do really badly on Broadway
- Have a rough night at the comedy club
- Box office bust
- Cherry ___ (certain firework)
- Movie that flops
- Dylan takes mega sum of money
- Bath ___ (fizzy capsule)
- Fail spectacularly
- Go over terribly with an audience
- Fail badly at the box office
- Total dud
- Flop at the box office
- Fail
- High cost weapon
- No mere firework for Robert around the 5th of November
- Get no laughs, say
- Fail spectacularly, as on Broadway
- Complete failure
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - March 05, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - November 25, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 20, 2025
- New York Times - February 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 03, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 17, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 08, 2024
- LA Times - June 28, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 03, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 29, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 26, 2023
- USA Today - July 20, 2023
- New York Times - May 18, 2023
- Family Time - February 12, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 21, 2022
- New York Times - August 15, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 19, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 29, 2022
- Daily Celebrity - January 30, 2018
- Washington Post Classic - January 28, 2018
- LA Times - January 04, 2018
- Family Time - December 11, 2017
- Mirror Quick - November 30, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2017
- And in 212 more crossword puzzles...