"West Side Story" tune

The answer

MARIA

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

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 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.

• TONIGHT (3 uses in xd)
• COOL (1 uses in xd)
• ONEHANDONEHEART (1 uses in xd)

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" 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
• Tony's love in "West Side Story" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Suspect's story - ALIBI, used 128 times
• Top story - ATTIC, used 108 times
• West Point student - CADET, used 102 times
• West Pointer - CADET, used 102 times
• Cover story - ALIBI, used 97 times
• Related on the mother's side - ENATE, used 66 times

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