"Breaking Away" director
The crossword clue ""Breaking Away" director" is answered by YATES, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
YATES
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the YATES answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for YATES
Every other clue in this collection answered by YATES, most used first.
- Eastwood's "Rawhide" role - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
- "Bullitt" director Peter - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- "Breaking Away" director Peter - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- "Bullitt" director - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- "Rawhide" role for Eastwood - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- "Revolutionary Road" author - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- "Revolutionary Road" novelist Richard - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- "The Deep" director Peter - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- "The Dresser" director Peter - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
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.
- Wear away - ERODE, used 660 times
- Eat away - ERODE, used 162 times
- Eat away at - ERODE, used 122 times
- Director Kurosawa - AKIRA, used 113 times
- Turn away - AVERT, used 104 times
- Stay away from - AVOID, used 91 times
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