The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ACT , but the solution may also be ROLE which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).
Play part crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
ACT | 37 % | 3 |
SCENE | 23 % | 5 |
ROLE | 17 % | 4 |
ACTI | 13 % | 4 |
ACTII | 5 % | 5 |
ACTIII | 2 % | 6 |
ACTTWO | 1 % | 6 |
ACTONE | 1 % | 6 |
EPILOGUE | 1 % | 8 |
ACTIV | 1 % | 5 |
Why may ROLE be the right solution?
In a play, each actor has a part to play, which is also known as a role. Therefore, "Play part" is a clue for the answer "ROLE".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Play part
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- role
- character
- act
- enact
- scene
- contribute
- enter
- participation
- function
- figure
- bear
- come
Crossword Answer definitions
ACT noun- Something done, a deed.
- Actuality.
- Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- The process of doing something.
- A formal or official record of something done.
- A division of a theatrical performance.
- A performer or performers in a show.
- Any organized activity.
- A display of behaviour.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- To do something.
- To do (something); to perform.
- To perform a theatrical role.
- Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- To convey an appearance of being.
- To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- To play (a role).
- To feign.
- (construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
- To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
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 ACT
- Be in a picture
- Charade
- Circus routine
- Class __
- Do something
- Drama part
- Ham it up
- Play the part
- Statute
- Tread the boards
More clues leading to the result SCENE
- Act part
- Part of Hamlet
- Play part
- Public display
- Ruckus
- Tableau vivant, e.g.
- View
- Day's work for a director
- Play venue
- Where the action is
More clues leading to the result ROLE
- Al Capone for Robert DeNiro, e.g.
- Balboa, to Stallone
- Function
- Gig Young gig
- Play part
- Thespian's objective
- __-play (act out)
- ___ play
- Acting job
- Auditioner's quest
More clues leading to the result ACTI
- Broadway opener
- Play opener
- Play part
- "Twelfth Night" opener
- Broadway opening
- When Romeo met Juliet
- Opera opener
- Play beginning
- Play start
- "Wicked" opening?
More clues leading to the result ACTII
- Play center
- Intermission follower
- Microwave popcorn brand with a movie themed name
- Period after intermission
- Middle of many plays
- When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are introduced
- When Romeo says, "But, soft!"
- When Juliet asks "Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
- When the "Toreador Song" is heard in "Carmen"
- When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern first appear in "Hamlet"
More clues leading to the result ACTIII
- Play part
- Roughly mid-drama
- Play ending, often
- End of many plays
- When Hamlet says "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
- When Hamlet delivers the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy
- End of some plays
- Middle of a Shakespearean play
- Conclusion of "Lohengrin"
- Middle part of a Shakespeare play
More clues leading to the result ACTTWO
- Play portion
- Play's second part
- Middle of many plays
- When Romeo says "Juliet is the sun"
- Middle part of many plays
- Play part
- When Hamlet feigns insanity
- Intermission follower
- When Juliet appears on the balcony
- Second half of a musical
More clues leading to the result ACTONE
- Book by Moss Hart
- Broadway opening
- Moss Hart's autobiography
- Opening of Swan Lake
- "Show time" time
- Show time?
- Moss Hart's life story
- Curtain-opener
- Play start
- Broadway opening?
More clues leading to the result EPILOGUE
- PS
- Novel's sort of coda
- Concluding part
- Coda relative
- Literary coda
- Play part
- Afterword
- Novel's coda
- Literary postscript
- Plot resolver, often
More clues leading to the result ACTIV
- "Hamlet" part that opens with Claudius, Gertrude, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern
- When Ophelia dies, in "Hamlet"
- When Oswald dies in "King Lear"
- Play segment
- Chekhov play ending, often
- When John Proctor confesses in "The Crucible"
- When Othello hides to overhear Cassio's boasting
- End of some plays
- Part of "The Tempest"
- When in "Macbeth" we hear "Eye of newt..."