| Terrible |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Oct 2025 |
| Dire |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Oct 2025 |
| Dreadful |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
25 Sep 2025 |
| Terrible, dreadful (5) |
Puzzler |
21 Sep 2025 |
| Horrific |
The Telegraph Plusword |
17 Sep 2025 |
| & 9A The -, 1937 romcom starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant (5,5) |
Mirror Quiz |
07 Sep 2025 |
| Allowed to be beheaded? Terrible (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
15 Aug 2025 |
| Allowed to ignore starter? That's terrible! |
|
|
| Really unpleasant |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 Jul 2025 |
| Very bad to break the law, but endless fun in it (5) |
|
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| Left out of legitimate dread |
|
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| Like a movie that gets zero stars, maybe |
|
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| "The ___ Truth," Cary Grant starrer |
|
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| Really bad or appalling, in short - lawfully bad. (5) |
|
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| Dreadful: the place was in an - mess |
|
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| Bad or full reports (5) |
|
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| Really unpleasant (5) |
Puzzler |
17 May 2025 |
| Terrible (5) |
Puzzler |
15 May 2025 |
| Terrible flaw, running around university (5) |
|
|
| Very bad |
Mirror Classic |
30 Apr 2025 |
| Atrocious |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Apr 2025 |
| It's terrible it's not quite legal (5) |
|
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| Almost from the start, just horrid |
|
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| Just the worst |
USA Today |
27 Mar 2025 |
| The worst |
Universal |
16 Mar 2025 |
| "This thesaurus is awful. Not only is it awful, it's also ___!" (joke) |
New York Times Mini |
11 Mar 2025 |
| Terrible entertainment briefly interrupts boring item |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Mar 2025 |
| Terrible description of judicial beheading |
|
|
| Really unpleasant |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 Feb 2025 |
| Legal to drop piece of litter, though very bad (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
16 Feb 2025 |
| Terrible, dreadful (5) |
Puzzler |
19 Jan 2025 |
| A week with variant of flu is terrible (5) |
|
|
| Dire |
The Times Concise |
10 Jan 2025 |
| Legal to be executed? That's dreadful (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
30 Dec 2024 |
| Terrible flaw, maybe around mid-January (5) |
|
|
| Legal to be beheaded? That's very bad! (5) |
|
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| Dreadful |
Mirror Tea Time |
17 Dec 2024 |
| More than bad |
|
|
| Very bad |
Mirror Classic |
02 Dec 2024 |
| Pretty bad |
|
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| Very bad at winning football, usually losing first of all (5) |
|
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| Extremely bad or unpleasant (5) |
|
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| Terrible |
The Times Sunday Concise |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Beheading permitted, that's appalling (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
19 Oct 2024 |
| Totally wretched |
USA Today |
18 Oct 2024 |
| Impressive though not entirely legal |
|
|
| Worse than bad |
Newsday |
13 Oct 2024 |
| Very bad |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Oct 2024 |
| It is terrible but it is not illicit to be beheaded (5) |
|
|
| Very bad |
Mirror Classic |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Horrible or dreadful |
|
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| Excessive: - force |
|
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| Terrible flaw in staggering round the bend |
|
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| Terrible tool keeps fouling up at first |
|
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| Beyond bad |
USA Today |
30 Aug 2024 |
| Extremely bad (5) |
Puzzler |
29 Aug 2024 |
| A wife suffering flu - that's bad (5) |
|
|
| No heading for legal rubbish |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Aug 2024 |
| Synonym for "yucky" |
LA Times Mini |
06 Aug 2024 |
| Terrible |
New York Times |
05 Aug 2024 |
| Terrible |
The Times Concise |
29 Jul 2024 |
| Dreadful, an shame |
|
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| Not quite legal ___ pretty terrible in fact! (5) |
|
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| It's terrible ___ and not quite legitimate (5) |
|
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| Worthy of respect, though not entirely legal (5) |
|
|
| Downright terrible |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Jun 2024 |
| Really unpleasant |
Puzzler Backwords |
13 Jun 2024 |
| Truly terrible |
|
|
| Nasty or ugly (5) |
|
|
| A week struggling with flu is terrible (5) |
|
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| "The ___ Truth," Cary Grant starrer |
|
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| Very bad or unpleasant (5) |
|
|
| Extremely low-quality |
Newsday |
20 May 2024 |
| Really bad |
Wall Street Journal |
14 May 2024 |
| Ghastly |
The Times Sunday Concise |
12 May 2024 |
| Was legal till the student left, then it was horrible (5) |
|
|
| Deplorable |
New York Times |
07 May 2024 |
| Terrible |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 May 2024 |
| Ghastly to behead lawful characters! (5) |
|
|
| Terrible starts for anyone who files unread letters |
|
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| Allowed to remove cap that's dreadful |
|
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| Legal to drop piece of litter, though very bad (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
06 Apr 2024 |
| Terrible ... or pretty |
New York Times Mini |
05 Apr 2024 |
| It's terrible - and not quite legitimate (5) |
|
|
| Getting zero stars, say |
|
|
| Terrible |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Mar 2024 |
| Dreadful |
Mirror Tea Time |
09 Mar 2024 |
| Rotten |
Newsday |
08 Mar 2024 |
| Terrible, but almost legal! (5) |
|
|
| Awe-inspiring or very bad (5) |
|
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| In the raw fully naked, how unpleasant (5) |
|
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| Uranium, flaw in which can be terrible (5) |
|
|
| Dreadful |
Mirror Tea Time |
21 Feb 2024 |
| It's legal to be decapitated, but very bad (5) |
|
|
| The worst |
LA Times Daily |
10 Feb 2024 |
| Lawful decapitation is atrocious (5) |
|
|
| Nasty |
LA Times Daily |
01 Feb 2024 |
| Remarkably large (5) |
|
|
| Poor in quality |
|
|
| Permitted to drop line? That's terrible (5) |
|
|
| A wife treated flu that's very bad |
|
|
| Just horrible |
USA Today |
25 Dec 2023 |
| Dreadful, horrible |
|
|
| PlusWord No 570 |
|
|
| More than bad |
|
|
| A week following middle of July is terrible (5) |
|
|
| Legal to be beheaded? That’s terrible |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
27 Nov 2023 |
| Legitimate to lose head, it's terrible |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
23 Nov 2023 |
| Shocking but right to be decapitated |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Nov 2023 |
| Appalling |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Nov 2023 |
| Very bad indeed |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Aug 2023 |
| Dire |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Jul 2023 |
| It's legal, getting rid of leader — and nasty |
The Times Cryptic |
13 Jul 2023 |
| Rotten |
Newsday |
22 Jun 2023 |
| Vile American with ample rear is ignored |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 May 2023 |
| Pants, just no top |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Apr 2023 |
| Far below par |
Newsday |
06 Apr 2023 |
| Allowed to go topless, which is shocking |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Apr 2023 |
| Foul |
The Guardian Quick |
30 Mar 2023 |
| Not just bad |
New York Times |
08 Feb 2023 |
| "Zero stars" |
LA Times Daily |
20 Jan 2023 |
| Absolutely horrid |
USA Today |
27 Dec 2022 |
| Terrible fellow you reportedly left after a week |
The Guardian Quiptic |
05 Dec 2022 |
| Terrible |
USA Today |
25 Aug 2022 |
| Really bad |
Universal |
19 Aug 2022 |
| A week following central element in cult is hideous |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Aug 2022 |
| Pretty bad |
|
|
| Just terrible |
USA Today |
26 Jul 2022 |
| Extremely bad |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jul 2022 |
| Legal to do away with leader? That's terrible! |
|
|
| Very bad |
The Times Concise |
30 Jun 2022 |
| Shocking |
The Guardian Quick |
21 May 2022 |
| Terrible |
USA Today |
14 May 2022 |
| Beheading legal? That's disgusting |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 May 2022 |
| Terrible |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Apr 2022 |
| Terrible just losing face |
The Times Cryptic |
08 Mar 2022 |
| Terrible |
Thomas Joseph |
29 Jan 2022 |
| Ghastly |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Dec 2021 |
| Extremely bad article with entire ending missing |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Dec 2021 |
| Very bad |
The Times Concise |
11 Dec 2021 |
| Terrible |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Dec 2021 |
| Extremely poor-quality |
Newsday |
21 Sep 2021 |
| Really bad |
USA Today |
14 Sep 2021 |
| Losing foremost of liberals is just terrible |
|
|
| Really bad |
Universal |
07 Sep 2021 |
| Not just bad |
The Washington Post |
27 Aug 2021 |
| Not just bad |
LA Times Daily |
27 Aug 2021 |
| "The ___ Truth," comedy film by Leo McCarey starring Cary Grant |
|
|
| Very bad |
Irish Times Simplex |
23 Jul 2021 |
| Worse than bad |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Jul 2021 |
| Rotten |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Jun 2021 |
| Terrible |
Eugene Sheffer |
04 Jun 2021 |
| Terrible |
The Times Concise |
30 May 2021 |
| Zero-star |
Newsday |
21 May 2021 |
| Pollarding allowed – that's terrible |
|
|
| Really, really bad |
New York Times |
15 Mar 2021 |
| Permitted to leave starter that's horrible |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Feb 2021 |
| Pollarding allowed – that's terrible |
|
|
| Dreadful |
Irish Times Simplex |
18 Jan 2021 |
| Allowed to remove large pants |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Dec 2020 |
| Terrible |
|
|
| Okay by the cops to bump off leading liberal? That's terrible! |
|
|
| Not good at all |
The Washington Post |
18 Jul 2020 |
| Not good at all |
LA Times Daily |
18 Jul 2020 |
| Worthy of being booed |
The Washington Post Sunday |
12 Jul 2020 |
| Terrible |
Newsday |
30 Jun 2020 |
| Very bad |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Jun 2020 |
| Really bad |
USA Today |
02 Jun 2020 |
| Very bad |
Irish Times Simplex |
28 May 2020 |
| Beyond bad |
Universal |
27 May 2020 |
| Atrocious |
Universal |
21 May 2020 |
| Really bad |
LA Times Daily |
22 Feb 2020 |
| Really bad |
The Washington Post |
22 Feb 2020 |
| The absolute pits |
USA Today |
10 Oct 2019 |
| Terrible |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Oct 2019 |
| Pretty bad |
|
|
| Extremely bad |
Newsday |
12 Aug 2019 |
| Permitted to remove top, very bad |
|
|
| Ghastly |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Jul 2019 |
| Dire |
The Times Concise |
05 Mar 2019 |
| Allowed to be decapitated — that's terrible |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Feb 2019 |
| Really bad or appalling |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Feb 2019 |
| Shocking! Right to be decapitated |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Feb 2019 |
| Terrible actor was famously useless Lear first of all |
|
|
| Legitimate to unseat leader? It's shocking |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Feb 2019 |
| Terrible |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Jan 2019 |
| Legal to be guillotined, though dreadful |
|
|
| Worth an F |
USA Today |
06 Jan 2019 |
| Worth an F |
|
|
| Really bad |
|
|
| The absolute pits |
|
|
| A complete report on women getting nauseous |
|
|
| Just pound off pants |
The Telegraph Toughie |
19 Dec 2018 |
| Greece excluded from Gulf War surprisingly! Shocking |
|
|
| Deserving of a pan |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Dec 2018 |
| Worse than bad |
USA Today |
19 Nov 2018 |
| Dismal and terrible |
|
|
| Really bad |
The Times Concise |
19 Oct 2018 |
| Very poor |
The Times Concise |
02 Sep 2018 |
| Atrocious |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Aug 2018 |
| Horrid |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Aug 2018 |
| Really bad |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Jul 2018 |
| More than bad |
|
|
| Meriting only half a star, say |
New York Times |
15 Jul 2018 |
| A woman's fat, almost ugly |
|
|
| Legally permissible to start late, but offensive |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Jun 2018 |
| A wife almost generous? Rubbish! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Jun 2018 |
| Terrible |
Universal |
27 May 2018 |
| Legally acceptable to oust leader that's unsatisfactory |
|
|
| Appalling |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 May 2018 |
| Very bad |
The Times Concise |
12 Mar 2018 |
| Ugly and allowed to go topless |
|
|
| Dire |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Feb 2018 |
| Horrible |
Newsday |
10 Jan 2018 |
| Atrocious |
|
|
| Worse than bad |
|
|
| Terrible |
|
|
| Meriting only half a star, say |
|
|
| Deserving of a pan |
|
|
| Horrid |
|
|
| Really bad |
|
|
| Really bad |
Family Time |
11 Dec 2017 |
| Horrific |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Nov 2017 |
| More than bad |
|
|
| Horrendous |
Universal |
24 Aug 2017 |
| Nasty ULFA militant enslaved women |
|
|
| Dreadful |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Jul 2017 |
| Terrible, not beginning to be legitimate |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 Jul 2017 |
| Sacking leader - Legally correct, aesthetically disagreeable! |
|
|
| Hideous Welsh sport largely set in a lake |
|
|
| Answer with almost complete rubbish |
|
|
| Legitimate banning learner driver that's very bad |
|
|
| Horrible |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Mar 2017 |
| Catastrophic legal line abandoned |
|
|
| Terrible guillotine permitted |
The Telegraph Toughie |
08 Mar 2017 |
| Topless constitutional? Horrific! |
|
|
| Horrendous |
|
|
| Horrific |
New York Times |
19 Dec 2016 |
| Like an epic fail |
New York Times |
07 Dec 2016 |
| Just plain bad |
Universal |
06 Aug 2016 |
| Just plain terrible |
Universal |
01 Aug 2016 |
| Permissible to have left off pants |
|
|
| Deserving zero stars |
USA Today |
19 Jun 2016 |
| Horrific |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Jun 2016 |
| Permissible to exclude learner? Very bad |
|
|
| Loathsome |
Newsday |
16 Apr 2016 |
| Very bad |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jan 2016 |
| Horrific |
|
|
| Very bad |
|
|
| Deserving zero stars |
|
|
| Like an epic fail |
|
|
| Just plain bad |
|
|
| Just plain terrible |
|
|
| Wretched |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Dec 2015 |
| Horrid |
The Washington Post |
23 Dec 2015 |
| Pants, if just 15 |
|
|
| Abominable |
New York Times |
02 Nov 2015 |
| Allowed to go topless, with dreadful consequences |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Nov 2015 |
| Atrocious, dire |
Irish Times Simplex |
29 Oct 2015 |
| Dread being not entirely legal |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Sep 2015 |
| Just missing line? That's terrible |
|
|
| Terrible |
New York Times |
31 Aug 2015 |
| Part 2 of 3 starting off ghastly |
|
|
| Just missing line? That's terrible |
|
|
| Terrible |
LA Times Daily |
17 Jul 2015 |
| Allowed to be executed? That's terrible |
|
|
| Terrible |
USA Today |
24 Jun 2015 |
| More than bad |
Universal |
15 May 2015 |
| A wife's offence -- lacking love. Terrible! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Apr 2015 |
| Horrible |
New York Times |
02 Mar 2015 |
| Abominable |
Universal |
17 Jan 2015 |
| Worse than bad |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Jan 2015 |
| Wretched |
|
|
| Terrible |
|
|
| Abominable |
|
|
| Abominable |
|
|
| More than bad |
|
|
| Just the worst |
|
|
| Terrible |
|
|
| Horrible |
|
|
| Terrible |
|
|
| Horrific |
|
|
| Appallingly bad |
|
|
| Terribly bad |
|
|
| Label for pans? |
|
|
| Worse than bad |
|
|
| Very bad |
|
|
| Hole hit off "Celebrity Skin" |
|
|
| Worse than bad |
|
|
| Horrendous |
|
|
| Horrific |
|
|
| Very bad |
|
|
| Legitimate student expelled with dire result |
|
|
| Worse than bad |
|
|
| Ghastly |
|
|
| More than bad |
|
|
| Really bad |
|
|
| See 45-Down |
|
|
| Really bad |
|
|
| Bad and then some |
|
|
| Horrendous |
|
|
| Dismal |
|
|
| Horrendous |
|
|
| Ghastly |
|
|
| Just terrible |
|
|
| Horrendous |
|
|
| Atrocious |
|
|
| Bad and then some |
|
|
| Very unpleasant |
|
|
| Deserving two thumbs down |
|
|
| Dreadful |
|
|
| Horrendous |
|
|
| Bad, and then some |
|
|
| Just terrible |
|
|
| Terrible |
|
|
| Beyond bad |
|
|
| Beyond bad |
|
|
| Stinking |
|
|
| Extraordinarily |
|
|
| Horrible |
|
|
| Very bad |
|
|
| Appallingly bad |
|
|
| The pits |
|
|
| Rotten |
|
|
| Incredibly bad |
|
|
| Worse than bad |
|
|
| Zero-star |
|
|
| Yucky |
|
|
| Not just bad |
|
|
| The pits |
|
|
| More than bad |
|
|
| Very |
|
|
| Atrocious |
|
|
| Reverential |
|
|
| Beyond bad |
|
|
| Worth no stars |
|
|
| Terrible |
|
|
| Ghastly |
|
|
| Unpleasant |
|
|
| Appalling |
|
|
| Just terrible |
|
|
| Extremely bad |
|
|
| Horrid |
|
|
| Very unpleasant |
|
|
| Description of a flop |
|
|
| Ghastly |
|
|
| Dismal |
|
|
| Very, informally |
|
|
| Very bad |
|
|
| Just plain bad |
|
|
| Just plain bad |
|
|
| Atrocious |
|
|
| Very, informally |
|
|
| Just terrible |
|
|
| Extremely |
|
|
| "The ___ Truth" |
|
|
| Terrible |
|
|
| Dire |
|
|
| "Yuck!"-inducing |
|
|
| Bad and then some |
|
|
| Word that often follows "perfectly" |
|
|
| Execrable |
|
|
| Rotten |
|
|
| Terrible just losing face |
|
|
| More than bad |
|
|
| Not just bad |
|
|
| Horrific |
|
|
| Worth an F |
|
|
| Beastly |
|
|
| "Unthinkable!" |
|
|
| Worth an "F" |
|
|
| Execrable |
|
|
| Just plain bad |
|
|
| God-___ |
|
|
| Bad |
|
|
| Worth two thumbs down |
|
|
| Very bad |
|
|
| Horrendous |
|
|
| No-good |
|
|
| Abominable |
|
|
| Dire |
|
|
| "The ___ Truth," Dunne-Grant film |
|
|
| Appalling |
|
|
| Very bad |
|
|
| Shocking |
|
|
| Causing dread |
|
|
| "The ___ Truth" |
|
|
| Wretched |
|
|
| Like truth, sometimes |
|
|
| Like truth, at times |
|
|
| Dreadful |
|
|
| Very disagreeable |
|
|
| Terrifying. |
|
|
| Very bad. |
|
|
| Solemnly impressive. |
|
|
| Extremely great: Colloq. |
|
|
| Worth no stars |
|
|
| Appalling. |
|
|
| Extremely unpleasant: Colloq. |
|
|
| Terribly impressive. |
|
|
| Dire. |
|
|
| Shocking. |
|
|
| Very bad: Colloq. |
|
|
| Ludicrous: Slang. |
|
|
| Impressive. |
|
|
| Very great: Colloq. |
|
|