Novelist ___ Mae Brown

The answer

RITA

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RITA answer page.

Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for RITA

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

• Singer Coolidge - used 68 times, most recently in 2025
• Comic Rudner - used 67 times, most recently in 2022
• Actress Moreno - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Actress Hayworth - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• Poet Dove - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• Meter maid of song - used 38 times, most recently in 2023
• Beatles' meter maid - used 28 times, most recently in 2020
• EGOT winner Moreno - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Hayworth - used 22 times, most recently in 2000
• "Lovely" Beatles girl - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Moreno of "West Side Story" - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
• "Rio ___." - used 19 times, most recently in 1988
• The Beatles' meter maid - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Hayworth or Moreno - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Singer Ora - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Former U.S. Poet Laureate Dove - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Tequila cocktail, for short - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Moreno or Hayworth - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Actress Tushingham - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Beatles meter maid - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
• Comedian Rudner - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Miss Hayworth. - used 10 times, most recently in 1995
• Moreno - used 10 times, most recently in 1998
• Actress Gam. - used 9 times, most recently in 1997
• "Educating ___," 1983 film - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
• Girl's name. - used 9 times, most recently in 1967
• Oscar-winner Moreno - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Pinup Hayworth - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• British singer Ora - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Hayworth of "Gilda" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Lovely" meter maid in a Beatles song - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Mrs. Tom Hanks - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Ms. Hayworth - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Ms. Moreno - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• "One Day at a Time" actress Moreno - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Poet laureate Dove - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Beatles girl with a "little white book" - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• Canadian singer MacNeil - used 6 times, most recently in 2003
• Dove of poetry - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Former Poet Laureate Dove - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Hayworth of Hollywood - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Hayworth or Gam - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
• Meter maid in a Beatles song - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "West Side Story" actress Moreno - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Wilson or Coolidge - used 6 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.

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