Clues for the word "FAILURE"
We've had 18 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 64 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on May 22, 2026.
Definition of failure
- n. - Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
- n. - Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
- n. - Want of success; the state of having failed.
- n. - Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
- n. - A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
- n. - A failing; a slight fault.
Referring Clues
- Bomb
- Kakorrhaphiophobe's fear
- Lack of success
- Flop
- What "you always pass ... on your way to success": Mickey Rooney
- Dud
- Opposite of success
- Fear of many
- It's said to be "the mother of success"
- Insufficiency
- No-hoper
- Bankruptcy
- See 22 across
- After scratching of head, nothing penned by composer is a disappointment
- Malfunction
- Flop is its first attraction, if I get a bit of a bottom line
- It's worth 0 grade points
- Sometimes it's "not an option"
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - May 22, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - May 02, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - March 06, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 01, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 16, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 30, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 12, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 23, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 21, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 20, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 23, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 22, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - February 10, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - December 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - October 31, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 26, 2023
- Your Life Choices - August 31, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - August 14, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 05, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 04, 2023
- Your Life Choices - May 08, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - February 26, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - January 19, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 12, 2022
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