Hero of "South Pacific."

The answer

EMILE

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

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 1964; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for EMILE

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

• Author Zola - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Novelist Zola - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Writer Zola - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• Zola - used 58 times, most recently in 1999
• "South Pacific" hero - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
• Boxer Griffith - used 28 times, most recently in 2018
• Rousseau novel - used 27 times, most recently in 2013
• M. Zola - used 22 times, most recently in 2001
• Hirsch of "Into the Wild" - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• "South Pacific" role - used 19 times, most recently in 2013
• French novelist Zola - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Hirsch of "Milk" - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• "J'Accuse" author Zola - used 18 times, most recently in 2016
• "Nana" author Zola - used 18 times, most recently in 2018
• Rousseau classic - used 18 times, most recently in 2020
• Rousseau work - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• Sociologist Durkheim - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Rousseau hero - used 12 times, most recently in 2002
• Remy's brother in "Ratatouille" - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "Into the Wild" star Hirsch - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Microphone inventor Berliner - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "J'Accuse" writer Zola - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Hirsch of "Lone Survivor" - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• '60s boxing champ Griffith - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• "Dirty Dancing" director Ardolino - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• "Milk" actor Hirsch - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Nellie's love in "South Pacific" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "Ratatouille" rat - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Zola or Griffith - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Zola who wrote "J'Accuse ...!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Spanish hero - ELCID, used 72 times
• Atlantic or Pacific - OCEAN, used 70 times
• Capital of South Korea - SEOUL, used 69 times
• Island south of Sicily - MALTA, used 65 times
• Pacific island group - SAMOA, used 48 times
• South American plain - LLANO, used 42 times

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