"Clash by Night" playwright

The answer

ODETS

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

Used 11 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• "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
• American playwright. - used 7 times, most recently in 2005
• "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
• 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
• "A Doll's House" playwright - IBSEN, used 49 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.