First name in westerns

The answer

ZANE

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• CLINT (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for ZANE

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

• Author Grey - used 49 times, most recently in 2023
• Writer Grey - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• Billy of "Titanic" - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
• Western writer Grey - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
• Novelist Grey - used 19 times, most recently in 2022
• Western author Grey - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Actor Billy of "Titanic" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• "Titanic" actor Billy - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Western novelist Grey - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Riders of the Purple Sage" novelist Grey - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Big name in Western fiction - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Grey of western novels - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• "The Phantom" star Billy - used 6 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.

• First-rate - AONE, used 274 times
• First place - EDEN, used 215 times
• Baseball family name - ALOU, used 183 times
• Edison's middle name - ALVA, used 156 times
• First-class - AONE, used 143 times
• First name in scat - ELLA, used 140 times

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