Director Reitman

The answer

IVAN

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

Used 35 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• JASON (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for IVAN

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

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• "Ghostbusters" director Reitman - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Novelist Turgenev - used 32 times, most recently in 2026

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.

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• "East of Eden" director Kazan - ELIA, used 56 times

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