Scouting mission, for short
The crossword clue "Scouting mission, for short" is answered by RECON, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
RECON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RECON answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 6 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
- Intel-gathering mission - used 20 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
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- Fit for a king - REGAL, used 114 times
- Play for time - STALL, used 113 times
- For the birds? - AVIAN, used 103 times
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