"Taps" instrument
The crossword clue ""Taps" instrument" is answered by BUGLE, a 5-letter entry. Used 25 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
BUGLE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BUGLE answer page.
Used 25 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 14 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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