Intel-gathering mission

The answer

RECON

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RECON answer page.

Used 20 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RECON

Every other clue in this collection answered by RECON, most used first.

• Info-gathering mission - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Scout's job - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Scout's mission - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Scout's job, for short - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Intel mission - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Scout's mission, for short - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Scout's work - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Scouting mission - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• Scout's job, briefly - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Scouting mission, briefly - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Military info-gathering - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Scouting mission, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Memorable mission - ALAMO, used 75 times
• San Antonio mission - ALAMO, used 52 times
• Texas mission - ALAMO, used 52 times
• Scrub, as a mission - ABORT, used 22 times
• Mission to remember - ALAMO, used 18 times
• Cancel, as a mission - ABORT, used 17 times

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