U.S. playwright

The answer

INGE

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

Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 1996; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 2 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.

• ODETS (12 uses in xd)
• ALBEE (5 uses in xd)
• RICE (3 uses in xd)
• LUCE (1 uses in xd)
• ONEILL (1 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• Gloomy Dean - used 7 times, most recently in 1990
• 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.

• "Pygmalion" playwright - SHAW, used 94 times
• Playwright Simon - NEIL, used 51 times
• Playwright Coward - NOEL, used 48 times
• Playwright Connelly - MARC, used 38 times
• Playwright O'Casey - SEAN, used 35 times
• Playwright George Bernard __ - SHAW, used 30 times

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