Some former tadpoles
The crossword clue "Some former tadpoles" is answered by EFTS, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EFTS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EFTS answer page.
Used 11 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EFTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by EFTS, most used first.
- Newts - used 129 times, most recently in 2008
- Young newts - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
- New newts - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Salamanders - used 61 times, most recently in 2020
- Small salamanders - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Baby newts - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Immature salamanders - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
- Young salamanders - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Immature newts - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
- Small amphibians - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
- Tritons - used 15 times, most recently in 1988
- Small lizards. - used 14 times, most recently in 2002
- Newts in transition - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
- Juvenile salamanders - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Semiaquatic salamanders - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Tadpole cousins - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Baby salamanders - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Terrestrial newts - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Young amphibians - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Amphibians - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Immature amphibians - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Juvenile newts - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Red ___ (newts) - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
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