Some whistle blowers
The crossword clue "Some whistle blowers" is answered by REFS, a 4-letter entry. Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. 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
REFS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REFS answer page.
Used 21 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for REFS
Every other clue in this collection answered by REFS, most used first.
- Whistle blowers - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- NFL officials - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Football officials, for short - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Boxing arbiters - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Umps - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Field workers - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Sports officials - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Football officials - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Game callers - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Zebras - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Umps' counterparts - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Court figures - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Gridiron officials - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Hockey officials - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- KO callers - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Umps' cousins - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Boxing officials - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Foul callers - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Makes calls - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Umps' kin - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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.
- Some - AFEW, used 116 times
- Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
- Some whiskeys - RYES, used 81 times
- Some NCOs - SGTS, used 80 times
- Some wines - REDS, used 72 times
- Some HDTVs - RCAS, used 69 times
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