Hefty instrument
The crossword clue "Hefty instrument" is answered by TUBA, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TUBA
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TUBA answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TUBA
Every other clue in this collection answered by TUBA, most used first.
- Big brass - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Big brass instrument - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Hefty horn - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Marching band instrument - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Brass instrument - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
- Big horn - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Oompah instrument - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Large brass instrument - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Saxhorn. - used 10 times, most recently in 1988
- Big brass horn - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Largest brass instrument - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- March instrument - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Band instrument - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Marching band member - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Oompah band member - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Bass brass - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Brass band instrument - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Low horn - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Oompah band instrument - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Band member - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Big, band instrument - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Big marching-band instrument - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Brass member - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
- Heavy horn - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Low brass - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Oompah producer - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Orchestral heavyweight - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Sousaphone - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Sousaphone's cousin - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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