The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word REF which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
One who cries foul? crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REF | 73 % | 3 |
| UMP | 20 % | 3 |
| REFEREE | 7 % | 7 |
Why may REF be the right solution?
The answer "REF" is short for referee, who is the person responsible for enforcing the rules and calling fouls in various sports.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: One who cries foul?
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- shouting
- another
- stinking
- blow
- shout
- harm
- ref
- foil
- demon
- have
- line
- reclaim
Crossword Answer definitions
REF noun- A referee.
- A refrigerator.
- To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
- A dining-hall, especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.
- A relationship or relation (to something).
- A measurement one can compare to.
- Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
- A person who provides this information; a referee.
- A reference work.
- That which serves as a reference work.
- The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
- A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
- (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
- (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
- An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
- (character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
- Appeal.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result REF
- Foul caller
- "Zebra," in football slang
- NHL OFF.
- TD caller
- TKO caller
- Zebra, in sports?
- Court caller
- He's in the midst of a fight
- Rink official
- Third man in the ring
More clues leading to the result UMP
- Baseball's ref.
- Fair-or-foul decider
- Ref
- Baseline enforcer
- One who spends the whole game making calls and who might be accused of not watching at all
- One might call you out
- Ref's counterpart
- Diamond arbiter
- Strike caller (abbr.)
- Ballpark figure