Play a banjo
The crossword clue "Play a banjo" is answered by STRUM, a 5-letter entry. Used 24 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
STRUM
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STRUM answer page.
Used 24 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for STRUM
Every other clue in this collection answered by STRUM, most used first.
- Play a guitar - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Play part - SCENE, used 114 times
- Play for time - STALL, used 113 times
- Pays to play - ANTES, used 71 times
- Play place - STAGE, used 51 times
- Serious play - DRAMA, used 50 times
- Part of a play - SCENE, used 44 times
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