| Be unsuccessful |
The Telegraph Mini |
21 May 2026 |
| Crash brings fellow trouble (4) |
Mirror Cryptic |
06 May 2026 |
| Be unsuccessful (4) |
Mirror Quick |
06 May 2026 |
| Grade that requires a retest |
|
|
| Blunder that might be epic |
LA Times Daily |
29 Mar 2026 |
| Have no success when Alfie comes round endlessly (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
26 Mar 2026 |
| Be unsuccessful |
Newsday |
25 Mar 2026 |
| Flunk, as a history test |
|
|
| Have no success when Alfie comes round endlessly (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
14 Feb 2026 |
| Be unsuccessful (4) |
Mirror Classic |
01 Feb 2026 |
| Lack success following trouble (4) |
The Guardian Quiptic |
01 Feb 2026 |
| Flunk, as a test |
|
|
| Come to nothing |
LA Times Daily |
26 Dec 2025 |
| Unwanted exam outcome |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
23 Dec 2025 |
| Have no success when Alfie comes round endlessly (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
11 Dec 2025 |
| Break down |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
27 Oct 2025 |
| Grade that requires a retest |
|
|
| Get an F |
USA Today |
13 Oct 2025 |
| Have no success when Alfie comes round endlessly (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
03 Oct 2025 |
| Flunk, as a history test |
|
|
| Prove unsuccessful (4) |
Mirror Classic |
21 Aug 2025 |
| Cease functioning (4) |
Puzzler |
18 Aug 2025 |
| Bad exam result |
The Telegraph Mini |
14 Aug 2025 |
| Flunk, as a test |
|
|
| Get an F |
New York Times |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Bite the dust (4) |
Puzzler |
01 Aug 2025 |
| Pass? Oh, no, no, no. |
|
|
| Crash brings fellow trouble (4) |
Mirror Cryptic |
16 Jul 2025 |
| Be unsuccessful (4) |
Mirror Quick |
16 Jul 2025 |
| F that comes right after A, B, C and D |
New York Times |
22 Jun 2025 |
| Crash brings fellow trouble (4) |
Mirror Cryptic |
18 Jun 2025 |
| Flunk(4) |
|
|
| Flunk (4) |
Mirror Quick |
18 Jun 2025 |
| Be unsuccessful (4) |
Mirror Classic |
13 Jun 2025 |
| Set up to ___ (sabotage) |
|
|
| As a result of an MoT test, cars don't make the grade (4) |
|
|
| Crash brings fellow trouble |
Mirror Cryptic |
27 May 2025 |
| Be unsuccessful |
Mirror Quick |
27 May 2025 |
| Flunk |
Eugene Sheffer |
27 May 2025 |
| Epic ___ |
USA Today |
07 May 2025 |
| Flunk, as a history test |
|
|
| Go under |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Apr 2025 |
| Make a mistake following trouble (4) |
|
|
| Not being robust right away, one will not pass (4) |
|
|
| Get 0% on |
|
|
| To flunk upsets Alfie no end! (4) |
|
|
| Pass or __ |
|
|
| If Al goes out, he'll miss his achievement! (4) |
|
|
| Flunk, as a test |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
The Times Concise |
07 Feb 2025 |
| Grade that requires a retest |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
Universal |
19 Jan 2025 |
| Don't pass! |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
18 Jan 2025 |
| Get an F |
Commuter |
10 Jan 2025 |
| "F" on a test |
|
|
| Not pass |
Universal |
17 Dec 2024 |
| Be unsuccessful, the test |
|
|
| Maybe a lm can't be nished if you go bust (4) |
|
|
| "F" on a test |
|
|
| Miss achievement |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
14 Nov 2024 |
| Not pass |
New York Times |
15 Oct 2024 |
| Do horrible in class |
Family Time |
15 Sep 2024 |
| Opposite of 'succeed' |
Puzzler Backwords |
10 Sep 2024 |
| Opposite of 'pass' (an exam) (4) |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
Newsday |
27 Aug 2024 |
| Get an F |
Family Time |
28 Jul 2024 |
| Epic ___ (embarrassing blunder) |
USA Today |
24 Jul 2024 |
| Be unsuccessful at, ... the subject |
|
|
| Drop the ball |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Jun 2024 |
| Word in many a YouTube title |
LA Times Daily |
09 Jun 2024 |
| Be unsuccessful in achieving your goal (4) |
|
|
| F, on a test |
|
|
| Do not succeed |
|
|
| To let down (4) |
|
|
| Get an F |
|
|
| Flop, go bust (4) |
|
|
| Get an F |
USA Today |
13 Mar 2024 |
| I, in river, go belly up (4) |
|
|
| Female to sicken and disappoint |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Mar 2024 |
| Be unsuccessful |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Mar 2024 |
| Miss the wild part of California (4) |
|
|
| Unsuccessfully try to find one in the river (4) |
|
|
| Founder of football I left (4) |
|
|
| Flunk, as a test |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
Mirror Classic |
20 Feb 2024 |
| Fighter facing trouble gets to be unsuccessful (4) |
|
|
| Go down the tubes |
USA Today |
13 Feb 2024 |
| Grade that requires a retest |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
Newsday |
29 Jan 2024 |
| Don't pass |
New York Times |
16 Jan 2024 |
| Word in the title of many an embarrassing YouTube video |
|
|
| See if Al can be wanting (4) |
|
|
| "F" on a test |
|
|
| Go bankrupt |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Nov 2023 |
| Fall short of a pass mark |
The Times Concise |
21 Sep 2023 |
| "Words __ me!" |
LA Times Daily |
27 Aug 2023 |
| Not succeed |
USA Today |
25 Aug 2023 |
| Be unsuccessful |
LA Times Daily |
20 Aug 2023 |
| Trouble follows loud bomb |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Aug 2023 |
| Flunk, as an exam |
|
|
| Flunk a test, say |
|
|
| Flunk, as a test |
|
|
| Get an F on a test, say |
|
|
| Fall short |
The Guardian Quick |
08 May 2023 |
| Get an F |
Universal |
07 Feb 2023 |
| Not pass in math, say |
|
|
| Fall flat |
LA Times Daily |
21 Sep 2022 |
| Get an F on |
USA Today |
15 Sep 2022 |
| Opposite of ace, in a test |
|
|
| F on a test |
|
|
| Break down |
Wall Street Journal |
03 May 2022 |
| Malfunction |
The Telegraph Quick |
29 Apr 2022 |
| Epic __ |
LA Times Daily |
21 Apr 2022 |
| Epic __ |
|
|
| Get an F |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
Newsday |
23 Feb 2022 |
| Stop working for American institute in Florida |
|
|
| 'Don't ___ me now!' |
|
|
| Neglect |
The Guardian Quick |
20 Nov 2021 |
| Not pass |
Universal |
03 Nov 2021 |
| Go under |
Thomas Joseph |
26 Jul 2021 |
| Stop working for American institute in Florida |
|
|
| Flunk |
Eugene Sheffer |
17 Jul 2021 |
| Opposite of "succeed" |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
|
|
| Go belly up |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Mar 2021 |
| Prove inadequate |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Jan 2021 |
| Fall flat |
|
|
| Fall flat |
LA Times Daily |
01 Jan 2021 |
| Flunk |
Eugene Sheffer |
31 Dec 2020 |
| Do poorly |
USA Today |
18 Dec 2020 |
| Hold for another year, say |
New York Times |
18 Dec 2020 |
| Without ___ (always) |
|
|
| Not pass, in school |
Universal |
18 Sep 2020 |
| Go under |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Sep 2020 |
| Feasible, occasionally, to come up short |
|
|
| Fall flat |
USA Today |
15 Jul 2020 |
| Break from female trouble |
|
|
| Not succeed |
USA Today |
15 Jun 2020 |
| Go out of business |
Wall Street Journal |
18 May 2020 |
| Miss the mark with spoonerisms out of professionalism |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
The Times Concise |
20 Mar 2020 |
| Not get above 60, say |
New York Times |
19 Feb 2020 |
| "Without ___" 2002 novel written by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher helps Mary Ellen Froelich protect the Vice-President-Elect |
|
|
| Give out |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Nov 2019 |
| Break down |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Sep 2019 |
| Let down smaller section of Irish party |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Aug 2019 |
| Come to nothing |
New York Times |
10 Jul 2019 |
| Female to sicken and disappoint |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Jun 2019 |
| Be unsuccessful |
The Sun Two Speed |
03 Jun 2019 |
| Give out |
Thomas Joseph |
09 May 2019 |
| Break down |
The Times Concise |
28 Apr 2019 |
| Bomb, as a midterm |
Universal |
01 Apr 2019 |
| Opposite of "succeed" |
|
|
| Unable to meet success |
|
|
| Flunk |
|
|
| ___-safe (contingency plan) |
|
|
| Bomb, as a midterm |
|
|
| Come to nothing |
|
|
| Have to repeat a grade |
Universal |
29 Nov 2018 |
| Fall short |
USA Today |
06 Nov 2018 |
| Founder |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Oct 2018 |
| How to repeat a grade |
Universal |
25 Oct 2018 |
| Epic __: disaster |
|
|
| Epic __: disaster |
LA Times Daily |
16 Oct 2018 |
| Go down the tubes |
USA Today |
10 Oct 2018 |
| Become unsuccessful at achieving a target, say |
|
|
| Be triumphant? No |
Universal |
21 Aug 2018 |
| One on YouTube might be epic |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Mar 2018 |
| Be unsuccessful |
|
|
| One on YouTube might be epic |
|
|
| Be triumphant? No |
|
|
| Have to repeat a grade |
|
|
| Go down the tubes |
|
|
| How to repeat a grade |
|
|
| Fall short |
|
|
| Founder |
|
|
| Epic __: disaster |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
LA Times Daily |
26 Dec 2017 |
| Be unsuccessful |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
Newsday |
17 Dec 2017 |
| Fall short |
Universal |
11 Dec 2017 |
| Urged to leave lifeguard or go broke |
|
|
| Get 29-Across |
New York Times |
01 Oct 2017 |
| Opposite of pass |
Family Time |
17 Sep 2017 |
| Founder of football body I left |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Sep 2017 |
| It can be an epic one |
|
|
| Not work out |
Newsday |
06 Aug 2017 |
| Go wrong |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Jun 2017 |
| Start to feel pain and collapse |
|
|
| Break down following trouble |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 May 2017 |
| Epic __ |
LA Times Daily |
26 Jan 2017 |
| Go belly up |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Jan 2017 |
| Fall short |
|
|
| Epic __ |
|
|
| Get 29-Across |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
|
|
| Crash and burn |
New York Times |
18 Nov 2016 |
| Get no credit for, in school |
LA Times Daily |
15 Nov 2016 |
| Pass's opposite |
New York Times |
20 Sep 2016 |
| Come up short |
Newsday |
06 Sep 2016 |
| Flunk when feeble, right to pull out |
|
|
| Suffer a defeat* |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Jul 2016 |
| Flunk out |
USA Today |
05 Jun 2016 |
| Go belly-up |
USA Today |
25 Apr 2016 |
| Fall on one's face |
USA Today |
09 Apr 2016 |
| Go up in smoke |
LA Times Daily |
30 Mar 2016 |
| Wash out |
|
|
| Flunk out |
|
|
| Wash out |
|
|
| Crash and burn |
|
|
| Pass's opposite |
|
|
| Bite the dust |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful in fighting against insurgency leaders, initially |
|
|
| Need repair |
Newsday |
29 Oct 2015 |
| Go bankrupt |
Premier Sunday |
07 Jun 2015 |
| Not catch on |
Newsday |
14 Feb 2015 |
| Not make the grade |
USA Today |
06 Feb 2015 |
| Go belly up |
|
|
| Need repair |
|
|
| Go bankrupt |
|
|
| Not catch on |
|
|
| Come up short |
|
|
| Not make the grade |
|
|
| Fall flat |
|
|
| Go under |
|
|
| Get no credit, in a way |
|
|
| Go belly-up |
|
|
| Get terrible grades |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
|
|
| Get an F |
|
|
| Wash out |
|
|
| Pass opposite |
|
|
| Go pfft |
|
|
| Opposite of pass |
|
|
| Need to retake in summer school, say |
|
|
| Strike out |
|
|
| Fall flat |
|
|
| "Words ___ me!" |
|
|
| Flunk out |
|
|
| Fall short |
|
|
| Flunk out |
|
|
| Bomb |
|
|
| Not make the grade? |
|
|
| Come to naught |
|
|
| Go bankrupt |
|
|
| Wash out |
|
|
| Epic ___ |
|
|
| Don't pass |
|
|
| Flunk |
|
|
| With 55-Across, 58-/46-Across movie (1964) |
|
|
| Fall short of success |
|
|
| Fall short |
|
|
| Fall short |
|
|
| Fall short of success |
|
|
| Bomb |
|
|
| Tank |
|
|
| Pass's opposite |
|
|
| Come up short |
|
|
| Pass's opposite |
|
|
| Flunk out |
|
|
| Come up short |
|
|
| Tank |
|
|
| Bomb |
|
|
| Earn no credit, say |
|
|
| Go kaput |
|
|
| Earn no credit |
|
|
| Without ___ (religiously) |
|
|
| Go down the tubes |
|
|
| Not pass |
|
|
| Fall short |
|
|
| Not pass |
|
|
| Opposite of pass |
|
|
| Pass alternative |
|
|
| Go under |
|
|
| Fall on one's face |
|
|
| Not make the grade |
|
|
| Flunk |
|
|
| Be unsuccessful |
|
|
| Go broke |
|
|
| Give out |
|
|
| Go bankrupt |
|
|
| Give out |
|
|
| Go belly up |
|
|
| Pass alternative |
|
|
| Flunk |
|
|
| Go belly up |
|
|
| Wash out |
|
|
| Wash out |
|
|
| Go belly-up |
|
|
| Wash out |
|
|
| Bite the dust |
|
|
| Bite the dust |
|
|
| Strike out |
|
|
| Not work out |
|
|
| Go kaput |
|
|
| Go bankrupt |
|
|
| Flunk |
|
|
| Opposite of pass |
|
|
| Go downhill |
|
|
| Not cut it |
|
|
| Give |
|
|
| Go belly up |
|
|
| Stop running, perhaps |
|
|
| Don't pass |
|
|
| Go down the tubes |
|
|
| Go belly up |
|
|
| Miss the mark |
|
|
| Go out of business |
|
|
| Fall short |
|
|
| Close down |
|
|
| Go belly up |
|
|
| Miss the mark |
|
|
| Go under |
|
|
| Go belly-up |
|
|
| Come up short |
|
|
| Go belly-up |
|
|
| Go belly up |
|
|
| Prove deficient |
|
|
| Fall through |
|
|
| Go on the fritz |
|
|
| Flunk |
|
|
| Earn an F |
|
|
| Go down in history? |
|
|
| Go belly-up |
|
|
| Not work |
|
|
| Give out |
|
|
| Go belly-up |
|
|
| Blow it |
|
|
| Opposite of ace |
|
|
| Go bust |
|
|
| Neglect school |
|
|
| Go pfft! |
|
|
| Go belly-up |
|
|
| Go on the fritz |
|
|
| Get an F |
|
|
| Conk out |
|
|
| Give out |
|
|
| Go under |
|
|
| Not succeed |
|
|
| Flunk |
|
|
| Miss the mark |
|
|
| Blow it |
|
|
| Go Belly up |
|
|
| Get an F |
|
|
| Flop |
|
|
| Poop out |
|
|
| Not make the grade |
|
|
| Come up short |
|
|
| Conk out |
|
|
| Fall short |
|
|
| Flunk out |
|
|
| Go pfft! |
|
|
| Not work |
|
|
| Lose vigor |
|
|
| Flop |
|
|
| Lose power |
|
|
| Prove deficient |
|
|
| Lay an egg |
|
|
| Go broke |
|
|
| Safe preceder |
|
|
| Be lacking |
|
|
| Get an F on an exam |
|
|
| Disappoint |
|
|
| Fall short |
|
|
| Come a cropper |
|
|
| Miscarry |
|
|
| Mess up |
|
|
| Flunk out |
|
|
| Fianna ___ |
|
|
| Miss |
|
|
| Go under |
|
|
| Piggin. |
|
|
| Go pfft big time |
|
|
| Get an "F." |
|
|
| Miss. |
|
|
| Go into bankruptcy. |
|
|
| Be unavailing. |
|
|
| Be unavailing |
|
|
| Be found wanting. |
|
|
| Flunk. |
|
|
| Get E on an exam. |
|
|
| Epic ___ |
|
|
| Disappoint. |
|
|
| Not pass. |
|
|
| Fall short. |
|
|
| Default. |
|
|
| Be washed out. |
|
|