Old-time actress Shearer

The answer

NORMA

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NORMA

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

• Bellini opera - used 126 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ Rae" - used 46 times, most recently in 2023
• Designer Kamali - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Marilyn's real name - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Actress Shearer - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Bellini heroine - used 11 times, most recently in 2008
• "___ Rae" (Sally Field film) - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Marilyn's birth name - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ Jean (Marilyn, originally) - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Desmond of "Sunset Boulevard" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Marilyn Monroe's real first name - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• Opera role. - used 7 times, most recently in 1967
• ___ Jean (Marilyn Monroe) - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

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