"South Pacific" role

The answer

EMILE

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

Used 19 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 7 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.

• LIAT (5 uses in xd)
• BLOODYMARY (4 uses in xd)
• NELLIE (2 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• Hero of "South Pacific." - used 11 times, most recently in 1964
• 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.

• Madonna role - EVITA, used 71 times
• Atlantic or Pacific - OCEAN, used 70 times
• Capital of South Korea - SEOUL, used 69 times
• Island south of Sicily - MALTA, used 65 times
• Played a role - ACTED, used 65 times
• Stallone role - RAMBO, used 57 times

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