American playwright.

The answer

ODETS

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1957. 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.

• RICE (6 uses in xd)
• CROUSE (3 uses in xd)
• INGE (3 uses in xd)
• WILDER (3 uses in xd)
• BARRY (2 uses in xd)

Other clues for ODETS

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

• "Golden Boy" playwright - used 92 times, most recently in 2026
• "Waiting for Lefty" playwright - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Playwright Clifford - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• "Awake and Sing!" playwright - used 31 times, most recently in 2018
• "Golden Boy" dramatist - used 15 times, most recently in 2017
• "Night Music" playwright - used 15 times, most recently in 2012
• "The Country Girl" playwright - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
• "Waiting for Lefty" playwright Clifford - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• Dramatist Clifford - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• "Awake and Sing!" dramatist - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• U. S. playwright - used 12 times, most recently in 1976
• "Clash by Night" playwright - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• "Golden Boy" author - used 9 times, most recently in 2001
• "Golden Boy" playwright Clifford - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Waiting for Lefty" dramatist - used 9 times, most recently in 2004
• "The Flowering Peach" playwright - used 7 times, most recently in 2017

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.

• Playwright Chekhov - ANTON, used 87 times
• Japanese-American - NISEI, used 85 times
• Playwright Fugard - ATHOL, used 73 times
• "Tiny Alice" playwright - ALBEE, used 56 times
• "Ghosts" playwright - IBSEN, used 55 times
• "Peer Gynt" playwright - IBSEN, used 51 times

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