| Text | Length |
| Flop | 4 |
| Dud | 3 |
| Failure | 7 |
| Clunker | 7 |
| Fiasco | 6 |
| Complete failure | 16 |
| Lay an egg | 10 |
| Stratego piece | 14 |
| Explosive device | 16 |
| Tank | 4 |
| Hit's opposite | 18 |
| Flop on stage | 13 |
| Flop on Broadway | 16 |
| Blitz | 5 |
| Big flop | 8 |
| Fall flat | 9 |
| Fail miserably | 14 |
| Total flop | 10 |
| Total failure | 13 |
| Broadway turkey | 15 |
| Broadway flop | 13 |
| Box-office failure | 18 |
| Terrorist's weapon | 22 |
| Perform poorly | 14 |
| Box-office flop | 15 |
| Theatrical failure | 18 |
| Strafe | 6 |
| Long pass | 9 |
| Complete flop | 13 |
| Box office disaster | 19 |
| Zero-star movie | 15 |
| Unsuccessful film | 17 |
| Stink up the stage | 18 |
| Rialto turkey | 13 |
| Lay an egg, so to speak | 23 |
| Immobile Stratego piece | 23 |
| Hail Mary pass, usually | 23 |
| Fail to get laughs at The Improv | 32 |
| Disaster, like the four movies in the theme entries | 51 |
| Crash and burn | 14 |
| Bunker buster | 13 |
| Broadway stinkeroo | 18 |
| Broadway stinker | 16 |
| Broadway loser | 14 |
| Bad news on Broadway | 20 |
| Angel's bad news | 20 |
| ''Waterworld'' or ''Ishtar,'' e.g. | 66 |
| Word with pipe or smoke | 23 |
| Word with A or H | 16 |
| With cobalt, Invention of U of S scientists | 44 |
| Warhead | 7 |
| Tinseltown turkey | 17 |
| Theatrical flop | 15 |
| Theater flop | 12 |
| Stage flop | 10 |
| Stage failure | 13 |
| Stage disaster | 14 |
| Showbiz flop | 12 |
| Screw up a bit? | 15 |
| Screen flop | 11 |
| Relative of a turkey | 20 |
| Rancid "Time ___" | 27 |
| Playwright's fear | 21 |
| One with a terrible opening | 27 |
| Movie flop | 10 |
| Movie deserving no stars | 24 |
| Montana-to-Solomon pass | 23 |
| Military missile | 16 |
| Long, high pass | 15 |
| Long N.F.L. pass | 16 |
| Lethal missile | 14 |
| Less than a one-star movie | 26 |
| Kind of shell or scare | 22 |
| H, A or cherry | 14 |
| Go over poorly | 14 |
| Foul play? | 10 |
| Flop, on Broadway | 17 |
| Flop, as a play | 15 |
| Filmdom flop | 12 |
| Film turkey | 11 |
| Film flop | 9 |
| Fall flat, as a show | 20 |
| Fail to get a laugh despite your best efforts | 45 |
| Fail on Broadway | 16 |
| Fail at the box office | 22 |
| Fail as a stand-up comic | 24 |
| Elway feat | 10 |
| Dud, in Hollywood | 17 |
| Drop explosives on | 18 |
| Close on opening night | 22 |
| Cinematic stinkeroo | 19 |
| Cherry or stink | 15 |
| Broadway failure | 16 |
| Bradshaw-to-Swann thriller | 26 |
| Bradshaw-Stallworth coup | 24 |
| Bradford-to-Swann pass | 22 |
| Box office failure | 18 |
| Blockbuster, e.g. | 17 |
| Belly-flop at the box office | 28 |
| B'way turkey | 16 |
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