Answer to "Contemporary of Shakespeare" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BACON , but the solution may also be PEELE which is one of the most recent solution (1984 in New York Times).

Contemporary of Shakespeare crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BACON	33 %	5
PEELE	33 %	5
DONNE	33 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Contemporary of Shakespeare

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• bacon
• donne
• kyd
• marlowe
• nashe
• history
• williams
• anne
• lear
• egg
• ali
• art

Crossword Answer definitions

BACON noun

1. Cured meat from the sides, belly or back of a pig.
2. Thin slices of the above in long strips.
3. The police or spies.
4. Road rash.
5. A saucisse.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result BACON

• Francis or Kevin
• Strips for breakfast
• Strips in the supermarket
• Meat market slabs
• Last name of an actor -- or a food -- that Redditors are obsessed with
• Member of the club?
• Strips at the breakfast table
• Stuffing ingredient
• Shakespeare, to some
• Pancetta

More clues leading to the result PEELE

• "The Old Wives' Tale" playwright
• Key's partner on a Comedy Central show
• Key's partner in comedy
• Elizabethan dramatist
• Key's comedy partner
• English dramatist George
• 16th century British dramatist George
• "The Old Wives' Tale" dramatist
• Jordan of "MADtv"
• Shakespeare contemporary George

More clues leading to the result DONNE

• "Death Be Not Proud" poet
• 17th-century poet John
• Metaphysical poet
• "Songs and Sonnets" poet
• "The Flea" poet
• "Woman's Constancy" poet John
• Poet who wrote The Eggstasie?
• Who said, "No man is an island"
• Elizabethan sonneteer
• Poet of Holy Sonnets