"The Old Wives' Tale" playwright
The crossword clue ""The Old Wives' Tale" playwright" is answered by PEELE, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
PEELE
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Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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