"Arsenic and Old Lace" director

The answer

CAPRA

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CAPRA answer page.

Used 14 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• FRANKCAPRA (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for CAPRA

Every other clue in this collection answered by CAPRA, most used first.

• "It's a Wonderful Life" director - used 85 times, most recently in 2024
• "It's a Wonderful Life" director Frank - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• "Meet John Doe" director - used 24 times, most recently in 2021
• "It Happened One Night" director - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• "Lost Horizon" director - used 23 times, most recently in 2020
• Director Frank - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• "Meet John Doe" director Frank - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Three-time Oscar-winning director - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• "It Happened One Night" director Frank - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" director - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Director of "It's a Wonderful Life" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Frank who directed "It's a Wonderful Life" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" director - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• "The Name Above the Title" autobiographer - used 6 times, most recently in 2011

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