Show opener
The crossword clue "Show opener" is answered by ACTI, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ACTI
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ACTI answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 8 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.
- THEMESONG (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ACTI
Every other clue in this collection answered by ACTI, most used first.
- Play opener - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
- First part of a play - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Start of a play - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
- Broadway opening - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Overture follower - used 52 times, most recently in 2025
- Play start - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Play starter - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- When Romeo meets Juliet - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Play opening - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Play part - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Part of a play. - used 21 times, most recently in 1981
- Dramatic opening - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Playbill heading - used 16 times, most recently in 2016
- Dramatic beginning - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Broadway opener - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Play beginning - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Broadway beginning - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Curtain raiser - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Opera opener - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Play's first part - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Play's opening - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Show starter - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Play's start - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Play's beginning - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- When Macbeth meets the witches - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- First part of a musical - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Opening on Broadway - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Beginning of a play - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Opener on Broadway - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Opera opening - used 6 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.
- Letter opener - DEAR, used 150 times
- Trade show - EXPO, used 88 times
- Letter opener - SIRS, used 71 times
- "Show Boat" composer - KERN, used 64 times
- Fairy tale opener - ONCE, used 59 times
- Show signs of life - STIR, used 59 times
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