SNAFU
5 letters
Historical clue formulations
- Screw-up — 2026-07-12
- Complete fiasco — 2026-02-17
- Big fiasco — 2025-11-23
- Major mess — 2025-08-28
- Hot mess — 2025-08-24
- Major muddle — 2024-12-04
- Real mess — 2024-08-07
- Major muddle — 2024-06-04
- Real pickle — 2024-02-18
- Military acronym first used in W.W. II — 2023-07-22
- Grounds for an apology — 2023-04-01
- Big bungle — 2023-03-21
- Screw-up — 2023-03-01
- Terrible mistake — 2022-10-17
- Major mix-up — 2021-09-22
- Mess of a mistake — 2021-08-23
- Big bungle — 2021-04-15
- Big mess — 2020-11-10
- Reason for an apology, maybe — 2020-06-30
- Huge mix-up — 2019-09-01
- Problem that has ballooned — 2019-07-09
- Not just a glitch — 2018-06-25
- Utter mess — 2017-04-27
- Bungle — 2015-01-18
- Big mistake — 2014-12-08
- Real mess — 2014-06-27
- Major glitch — 2014-02-23
- Real mix-up — 2014-01-28
- Total mess — 2013-06-27
- Chaotic situation — 2013-02-27
- Major bollix — 2012-12-05
- Megamistake — 2012-07-23
- Major mess — 2011-09-29
- Tangle — 2011-01-28
- Big mess — 2010-12-22
- Awful mistake — 2010-08-16
- Muddled situation — 2010-02-07
- Major muddle — 2008-06-17
- Major mix-up — 2007-07-30
- Major mess — 2007-06-19
- State of confusion — 2006-12-10
- Acronym since 1941 — 2005-11-17
- Big mess — 2005-06-28
- Major miscue — 2005-05-10
- Not just a tie-up — 2002-09-17
- Mix-up — 2001-12-31
- Big muddle — 2001-10-02
- Muddle — 2000-06-16
- Big mess — 2000-04-11
- Catchall reason for failure — 1999-03-20