"True West" playwright Sam Crossword Clue

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"True West" playwright Sam Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)
2. astronaut who made the first United States’ suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PLAYWRIGHT (noun)
1. someone who writes plays
WEST (noun)
1. United States film actress (1892-1980)
2. the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River
WEST (adjective)
1. situated in or facing or moving toward the west

Hint 3: Anagram

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More NYT Crossword (4/11/2026) Answers

Across

1. "How telling"

13. Rued remark?

14. Question to one who's down

15. There's a Black, White and Red one

16. "Such a blast!"

17. Buff bros

18. Maintained, as a position

20. Part of E.S.T.: Abbr.

21. Downed

22. They have sticking points in competition

24. Some gaming centers, in brief

25. 'Darn it!'

28. Arboreal symbol in Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"

32. Fulfill ... or fill

33. Give a very wide berth

35. Heading in a wine list

36. A significant accomplishment

37. House and Howser: Abbr.

38. ___-eared

39. Figures in a speed trap?

40. Something most people have memorized

41. Iowa college

44. Writer of "Esmé" and "The Open Window"

45. Not a good way to run?

48. Old Syrian political party whose name means "resurrection"

50. X

51. Flip remark?

54. "Saturday Night Live" features that aren't live

55. Term for an ambiguously worded news headline

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Down

1. Your of yore

2. They're tipped out of respect

3. Alexandre Dumas's Count de la Fère

4. It's a steal!

5. Spanish blessing

6. Big publisher of romance novels

7. Hunger

8. Aiming mechanisms on bows

9. Plug amount

10. Moldable soil

11. At some time

12. ___ idol

13. Groups studied by cetologists

14. Become inconsolable about

19. Providers of chops and chips

21. Line running roughly parallel to Interstate 95

23. Disconsolate

24. "The King of Football"

25. Cars with a trident logo

26. Person playing forward

27. Calls home, as a bird might

29. Gabbed, gabbed, gabbed

30. Car roof with removable panels

31. Farm male

32. Remote locations?

34. TV channel that has received a Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech

38. Adam's first wife, in Jewish myth

40. Hungarian sheepdogs

41. Schoolyard retort

42. Vows you may stand for

43. Spirit of an era

45. Down Under band with 10 multiplatinum albums

46. "All right!"

47. ___ Tokarczuk, 2018 Literature Nobelist

48. Unwanted bit of mail

49. "Show me a ___ and I'll write you a tragedy": F. Scott Fitzgerald

52. Something you owe

53. Producer of notes

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