Bugle tune
The crossword clue "Bugle tune" is answered by TAPS, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TAPS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAPS answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TAPS
Every other clue in this collection answered by TAPS, most used first.
- Lights-out tune - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Bugle call - used 55 times, most recently in 2019
- Faucets - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Spigots - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- A little night music - used 28 times, most recently in 2020
- Reveille's opposite - used 27 times, most recently in 2021
- Touches on the shoulder - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Lights-out signal - used 19 times, most recently in 2020
- Bugler's evening call - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Last call? - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
- Evening bugle call - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- "Lights out" music - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Night music - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Brewpub array - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Touches lightly - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Dances like Gregory Hines - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Lights out. - used 7 times, most recently in 1967
- Pub hardware - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Selects, so to speak - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Base melody - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- "Lights out" bugle tune - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Memorial Day solo - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Soldier's lullaby - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
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.
- Fine-tune - HONE, used 89 times
- Yuletide tune - NOEL, used 67 times
- Happy tune - LILT, used 43 times
- "Tosca" tune - ARIA, used 39 times
- Cheerful tune - LILT, used 38 times
- Tune for two - DUET, used 31 times
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