Silents star Jannings

The answer

EMIL

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EMIL answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EMIL

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

• Actor Jannings - used 164 times, most recently in 2026
• Pianist Gilels - used 106 times, most recently in 2024
• Oscar winner Jannings - used 66 times, most recently in 2021
• Man's name. - used 40 times, most recently in 1997
• Author Ludwig - used 36 times, most recently in 2011
• Disney's "___ and the Detectives" - used 35 times, most recently in 2022
• Biographer Ludwig - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Runner Zatopek - used 32 times, most recently in 2016
• Jannings of old films - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
• Ludwig - used 23 times, most recently in 1997
• Jannings - used 19 times, most recently in 1981
• Painter Nolde - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
• Jannings of "The Blue Angel" - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Ludwig or Jannings - used 15 times, most recently in 2009
• Early Oscar winner Jannings - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• First Best Actor winner Jannings - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• "___ and the Detectives" - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Expressionist painter Nolde - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Expressionist Nolde - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• German painter Nolde - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• 1928 Oscar winner Jannings - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Name that's a fruit backward - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Last Command" Oscar winner Jannings - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• German biographer ___ Ludwig - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
• Jannings of old movies - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Jannings or Ludwig - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
• Czech runner Zatopek - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Jannings who won the first Best Actor Oscar - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Olympic track champion Zatopek - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Writer Ludwig - used 7 times, most recently in 1990
• Zatopek or Jannings - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• German Expressionist Nolde - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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