The Clue
Screw up (9 letter answer)
The Answer
MISHANDLE
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Notes
The answer MISHANDLE is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
MISHANDLE as a verb:
1. (botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up) = make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
2. (mismanage, mishandle, misconduct) = manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged"