Scout's job
The crossword clue "Scout's job" is answered by RECON, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RECON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RECON answer page.
Used 18 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 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 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.
- Bank job - HEIST, used 73 times
- Scout's rider - TONTO, used 27 times
- Time on the job - STINT, used 27 times
- Did a cobbler's job - SOLED, used 26 times
- Did a blacksmith's job - SHOED, used 23 times
- Job reward - RAISE, used 19 times
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