Gloomy Dean

The answer

INGE

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 1990; first recorded in 1949. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for INGE

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

• "Picnic" playwright - used 269 times, most recently in 2026
• "Bus Stop" playwright - used 177 times, most recently in 2026
• Playwright William - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
• "Come Back, Little Sheba" playwright - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
• "Picnic" author - used 31 times, most recently in 2021
• "Picnic" playwright William - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• "Bus Stop" playwright William - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• "Bus Stop" dramatist - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• "Bus Stop" author - used 18 times, most recently in 2017
• "Splendor in the Grass" screenwriter - used 17 times, most recently in 2021
• "Bus Stop" writer - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Contemporary playwright. - used 15 times, most recently in 1967
• "A Loss of Roses" playwright - used 14 times, most recently in 2014
• "Picnic" dramatist - used 14 times, most recently in 2020
• "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" playwright - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• The Gloomy Dean - used 13 times, most recently in 2002
• Little Sheba's creator - used 12 times, most recently in 2013
• "Picnic" penner - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• "Natural Affection" playwright - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• U.S. playwright - used 10 times, most recently in 1996
• Photographer Morath - used 9 times, most recently in 1992
• "Picnic" writer - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
• "Where's Daddy?" playwright - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• "Picnic" Pulitzer winner - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• "Come Back, Little Sheba" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• Pulitzer playwright William - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• 1953 Pulitzer playwright - used 6 times, most recently in 2003
• "Splendor in the Grass" writer - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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.

• Gloomy - DOUR, used 128 times
• Gloomy atmosphere - PALL, used 42 times
• Gloomy - DARK, used 20 times
• Gloomy - GRIM, used 19 times
• Gloomy aura - PALL, used 9 times
• Gloomy - GRAY, used 8 times

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