Recurrent theme
The crossword clue "Recurrent theme" is answered by TROPE, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TROPE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TROPE answer page.
Used 7 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2017. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for TROPE
Every other clue in this collection answered by TROPE, most used first.
- Figure of speech - used 131 times, most recently in 2024
- Figurative use of a word - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- Literary device - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Metaphor, e.g. - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Overused theme - used 9 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.
- Recurring theme - MOTIF, used 95 times
- Theme - MOTIF, used 54 times
- "__ Theme" ("Doctor Zhivago" tune) - LARAS, used 21 times
- Disney theme park - EPCOT, used 17 times
- Theme - TOPIC, used 16 times
- Decorator's theme - MOTIF, used 15 times
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