Tony's love in "West Side Story"

The answer

MARIA

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

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MARIA

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

• "West Side Story" song - used 51 times, most recently in 2023
• "Ave __" - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• "West Side Story" heroine - used 33 times, most recently in 2025
• Opera's Callas - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• "Santa __" (ship of 1492) - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Santa ___ - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
• Soprano Callas - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Sharapova of tennis - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• "West Side Story" girl - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
• Educator Montessori - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Journalist Shriver - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Newswoman Shriver - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "West Side Story" tune - used 11 times, most recently in 2008
• "West Side Story" role - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Tennis star Sharapova - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Sound of Music" heroine - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "West Side Story" love song - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Arnold's wife - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
• Callas - used 8 times, most recently in 1979
• "Sound of Music" heroine - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Tennis pro Sharapova - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Ballerina Tallchief - 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.

• Love to pieces - ADORE, used 190 times
• Love, Italian-style - AMORE, used 132 times
• Suspect's story - ALIBI, used 128 times
• Love affair - AMOUR, used 115 times
• Top story - ATTIC, used 108 times
• West Point student - CADET, used 102 times

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