Certain woodwinds
The crossword clue "Certain woodwinds" is answered by OBOES, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
OBOES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OBOES answer page.
Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OBOES
Every other clue in this collection answered by OBOES, most used first.
- Woodwind instruments - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Some woodwinds - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Double-reed instruments - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Woodwinds - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Slender woodwinds - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Wind instruments - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Double reeds - used 14 times, most recently in 2013
- High winds - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Double-reeded woodwinds - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Hautboys - used 12 times, most recently in 2008
- Some winds - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Bassoon relatives - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Bassoon's cousins - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Clarinet cousins - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Orchestral winds - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Some reeds - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Double-reed woodwinds - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Orchestra group - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Orchestra members - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- English horn cousins - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Orchestral instruments - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Reed instruments - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- They're found among the reeds - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Orchestral reeds - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Reeds - used 8 times, most recently in 1991
- English horn relatives - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Musical instruments - used 7 times, most recently in 1972
- Orchestra section - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Orchestra woodwinds - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Bassoon cousins - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Bassoons' smaller relatives - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Heckelphones - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
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