Calls the game
The crossword clue "Calls the game" is answered by UMPS, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
UMPS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the UMPS answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- UMPIRES (1 uses in xd)
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