Bjorn contemporary

The answer

ILIE

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; 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 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.

• IVAN (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for ILIE

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

• Nastase of tennis - used 217 times, most recently in 2026
• "Would ___ to you?" - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
• Netman Nastase - used 98 times, most recently in 2017
• Tennis's Nastase - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• "Would ___?" - used 31 times, most recently in 2023
• Tennis great Nastase - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• "Why would ___?" - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Rival of Bjorn - used 21 times, most recently in 2021
• "Nasty" Nastase - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• Nastase - used 15 times, most recently in 1999
• Tennis bad boy Nastase - used 15 times, most recently in 2009
• Nastase of the courts - used 12 times, most recently in 2009
• Tennis champ Nastase - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Rival of Jimmy and Bjorn - used 10 times, most recently in 2007
• First name in tennis - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Netter Nastase - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
• Nastase of tennis fame - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• "Would ___ to you?" (2 wds.) - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• First name in '70s tennis - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Nastase of tennis lore - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Tennis pro Nastase - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
• Tennis star Nastase - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Bjorn rival - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Nastase of the court - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Opponent for Bjorn - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Tennis' Nastase - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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.

• Agatha contemporary - ERLE, used 28 times
• Ford contemporary - OLDS, used 27 times
• Agatha's contemporary - ERLE, used 26 times
• Contemporary of Agatha - ERLE, used 23 times
• Dashiell contemporary - ERLE, used 18 times
• Dali contemporary - MIRO, used 17 times

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