Impromptu
The crossword clue "Impromptu" is answered by ADLIB, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ADLIB
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADLIB answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 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.
- EXTEMPORE (3 uses in xd)
- EXTEMPORANEOUS (2 uses in xd)
- OFFHAND (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for ADLIB
Every other clue in this collection answered by ADLIB, most used first.
- Wing it - used 102 times, most recently in 2025
- Improvise - used 98 times, most recently in 2026
- Go off script - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Off-the-cuff - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Extemporize - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Speak off the cuff - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Improvise on stage - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Stray from the script - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Deviate from the script - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Off-the-cuff remark - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Make up lines - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Ignore the script - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Wing it on stage - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Off-script remark - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Perform without preparation - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Speak without preparation - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Wing it onstage - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Wing it, speechwise - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Do improv - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Do some improv - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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.
- Impromptu - ADHOC, used 24 times
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