Slender instrument
The crossword clue "Slender instrument" is answered by OBOE, a 4-letter entry. Used 30 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
OBOE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the OBOE answer page.
Used 30 times across 21 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 11 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for OBOE
Every other clue in this collection answered by OBOE, most used first.
- Woodwind instrument - used 332 times, most recently in 2026
- Reed instrument - used 195 times, most recently in 2026
- Hautboy - used 152 times, most recently in 2013
- Woodwind - used 146 times, most recently in 2026
- Double-reed instrument - used 140 times, most recently in 2026
- Slender woodwind - used 102 times, most recently in 2026
- Clarinet cousin - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
- Bassoon's kin - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
- Double-reed woodwind - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
- Bassoon relative - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Wind instrument - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Bassoon cousin - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
- Bassoon's cousin - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Clarinet's cousin - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Mitch Miller's instrument - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
- Orchestra member - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Bassoon kin - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Orchestral instrument. - used 35 times, most recently in 2023
- Musical instrument. - used 32 times, most recently in 2003
- The duck in "Peter and the Wolf" - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Wind in a pit - used 30 times, most recently in 2024
- Certain woodwind - used 27 times, most recently in 2018
- English horn relative - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Orchestra instrument - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- English-horn kin - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Double reed - used 23 times, most recently in 2009
- One of the reeds - used 23 times, most recently in 2018
- "Peter and the Wolf" duck - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Reed section member - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Clarinet's kin - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Cousin of a bassoon - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- One of the woodwinds - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
- Reed - used 22 times, most recently in 1997
- Reed in a pit - used 22 times, most recently in 2021
- Clarinet relative - used 21 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.
- Slender - SLIM, used 150 times
- Slender - THIN, used 80 times
- Angel's instrument - HARP, used 61 times
- Minstrel's instrument - LUTE, used 61 times
- Pear-shaped instrument - LUTE, used 61 times
- Slender - LEAN, used 53 times
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