ROLE is an answer for the NYT Crossword puzzle. Here you can get the history and usage for ROLE in NYT Crossword from 1994.
This "ROLE" answer was first appeared in "30 Nov 1993" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Actor’s part". It was authored by Joel Davajan/Will Shortz. Recently, the "ROLE" answer has been used for "19 Dec 2023" NYT Crossword for the hint of "Capacity". It was authored by Seth Weitberg. In the NYT Crossword, this answer has been used most frequently for the hint: "Part". "ROLE" appeared 155 times in Shortz Era puzzles. So lets take a look for clue and answer history of "ROLE" word.
| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Dec 2023 | 20A | Capacity | Seth Weitberg |
| 4 May 2023 | 16A | Play part | David J. Kahn |
| 30 May 2022 | 51A | Part to play | Alexander Liebeskind |
| 21 May 2022 | 32A | Function | Ryan McCarty and Yacob Yonas |
| 14 May 2022 | 32D | Ensemble part | Ada Nicolle |
| 30 Apr 2022 | 45D | Lead, e.g. | Joe DiPietro |
| 26 Nov 2021 | 48A | Part | Kate Hawkins / Will Shortz |
| 26 Oct 2021 | 25D | Something played that’s not a game | Michael Schlossberg / Will Shortz |
| 21 Jun 2021 | 30D | Part to play | Jacob Stulberg / Will Shortz |
| 14 Mar 2021 | 24D | Part | Jacob Stulberg / Will Shortz |
| 4 Mar 2021 | 19D | Part | Blake Slonecker / Will Shortz |
| 17 Dec 2020 | 19D | Credit line? | Kathryn Ladner / Will Shortz |
| 18 Aug 2020 | 9A | ___-play | Olivia Mitra Framke / Will Shortz |
| 14 Jul 2020 | 45D | Auditioner’s desire | Stella Zawistowski / Will Shortz |
| 18 Mar 2020 | 65A | Wonder Woman, for Gal Gadot | Ricky Cruz / Will Shortz |
| 2 Feb 2020 | 20A | Part of a theater? | Brian Herrick and Christopher Adams / Will Shortz |
| 27 Aug 2019 | 3D | Focus of a casting director | Daniel Raymon / Will Shortz |
| 14 Aug 2019 | 14A | Cameo, for one | David J. Kahn / Will Shortz |
| 1 Jul 2019 | 60D | Part in a movie | Damon Gulczynski / Will Shortz |
| 10 Jun 2019 | 49A | Auditioner’s goal | Brad Wilber / Will Shortz |
| 12 Mar 2019 | 20A | Part to play | Jules Markey / Will Shortz |
| 20 Feb 2019 | 35D | Part to play | Byron Walden / Will Shortz |
| 30 Jan 2019 | 40A | Goal for an actor | Emily Carroll / Will Shortz |
| 14 Jan 2019 | 33D | Part in a movie | Craig Stowe / Will Shortz |
| 23 Dec 2018 | 129A | Iago or Othello | David Alfred Bywaters / Will Shortz |
| 27 Nov 2018 | 15A | Casting director’s assignment | Erik Agard / Will Shortz |
| 29 Jul 2018 | 15D | Part | Will Nediger / Will Shortz |
| 20 Apr 2018 | 47D | Capacity | Joel Fagliano / Will Shortz |
| 5 Feb 2018 | 30D | Part to play | Alan Arbesfeld / Will Shortz |
| 17 Dec 2017 | 110A | Part | Andrew J. Ries / Will Shortz |
| 24 Apr 2017 | 52A | Part in a movie | Gary Cee / Will Shortz |
| 16 Sep 2016 | 13D | Capacity | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
| 14 Sep 2016 | 27D | Auditioner’s hope | Dan Schoenholz / Will Shortz |
| 12 Sep 2016 | 7D | Offering from a casting director | Victor Fleming and Andrea Carla Michaels / Will Shortz |
| 29 Mar 2016 | 36D | Something cast | Peter A. Collins / Will Shortz |
| 19 Dec 2015 | 4D | Assumed thing | Damon Gulczynski / Will Shortz |
| 11 Aug 2015 | 48D | Part of Hollywood? | Jay Kaskel and Daniel Kantor / Will Shortz |
| 23 Apr 2015 | 24D | Part | David Steinberg and Bruce Leban / Will Shortz |
| 5 Jan 2015 | 5D | What an actor plays | John Guzzetta / Will Shortz |
| 27 Nov 2014 | 24A | Capacity | Stanley Newman / Will Shortz |
| 13 Nov 2014 | 56D | Capacity | Tracy Gray / Will Shortz |
| 14 Oct 2014 | 57D | Something to audition for | Adam G. Perl / Will Shortz |
| 11 Jun 2014 | 40A | Something to play | Ian Livengood / Will Shortz |
| 24 Sep 2013 | 52A | It’s cast | Kevin Christian / Will Shortz |
| 20 Jun 2013 | 48A | Ladder, part 5 | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 28 May 2013 | 26A | What an actor plays | Dan Feyer / Will Shortz |
| 22 May 2013 | 15A | Credits listing | Kevin Christian / Will Shortz |
| 31 Mar 2013 | 109D | Part of a play | Caleb Madison / Will Shortz |
| 11 Jan 2013 | 28D | Something to play | Ian Livengood / Will Shortz |
| 27 Nov 2012 | 65A | Job for an actor | Peter A. Collins / Will Shortz |
| 10 Aug 2012 | 54A | Show part | John Lampkin / Will Shortz |
| 5 Aug 2012 | 36A | It’s cast and landed | Patrick Merrell / Will Shortz |
| 28 Jun 2012 | 17A | Part | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 3 Jun 2012 | 49A | Function | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
| 14 May 2012 | 66A | Part to play | John Dunn / Will Shortz |
| 11 May 2012 | 35D | Moe Howard, for Chris Diamantopoulos, in 2012 | Natan Last / Will Shortz |
| 15 Aug 2011 | 7D | Part to play | Stan Newman / Will Shortz |
| 5 Jul 2011 | 63A | One may be leading or supporting | Andrea Carla Michaels and Johanna Fenimore / Will Shortz |
| 19 Nov 2010 | 17A | Stage part | Victor Fleming / Will Shortz |
| 12 Apr 2010 | 37A | Actor’s pursuit | Ian Livengood / Will Shortz |
| 18 Feb 2010 | 24D | King Henry V, e.g. | Caleb Madison / Will Shortz |
| 8 Jan 2010 | 12D | It may be played for money | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
| 8 Dec 2009 | 58D | Credits listing | Joe Krozel / Will Shortz |
| 27 Sep 2009 | 119A | It might be assumed | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
| 28 Jul 2009 | 26D | Thing to play | Tony Orbach / Will Shortz |
| 24 Jul 2009 | 26D | It’s assumed | Patrick Berry / Will Shortz |
| 31 May 2009 | 121A | Something to play | Kelsey Blakley / Will Shortz |
| 27 Jan 2009 | 55D | 58-Across, for Matt Damon | Jim Hyres / Will Shortz |
| 19 Dec 2008 | 47A | Lead, for one | Natan Last / Will Shortz |
| 10 Dec 2008 | 40D | It must be cast | Joe Krozel / Will Shortz |
| 10 Nov 2008 | 7D | Part on stage | Gail Grabowski / Will Shortz |
| 16 Sep 2008 | 28D | Cameo, e.g. | Michael Langwald / Will Shortz |
| 13 Sep 2008 | 31D | Iago, for one | Will Nediger / Will Shortz |
| 3 Sep 2008 | 56A | Macbeth or Lady Macbeth | David J. Kahn / Will Shortz |
| 7 Apr 2008 | 43D | Part to play | Randall J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
| 16 Mar 2008 | 77D | Part | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 29 Sep 2007 | 50A | Lead, e.g. | Robert H. Wolfe / Will Shortz |
| 4 Sep 2007 | 15A | God, for George Burns or Morgan Freeman | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
| 22 Nov 2006 | 16A | See 12-Across | Edward Alch / Will Shortz |
| 6 Nov 2006 | 43A | What a casting director tries to fill | Christina Houlihan Kelly / Will Shortz |
| 15 Oct 2006 | 76D | Medea, for one | Norma Johnson & Nancy Salomon / Will Shortz |
| 31 Aug 2006 | 38D | Part | Patrick Merrell / Will Shortz |
| 3 Jul 2006 | 40A | Gen. Patton, to George C. Scott | Randall J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
| 18 Apr 2006 | 21D | Part to play | Pete Muller / Will Shortz |
| 30 Nov 2005 | 27D | Reader’s goal | Seth A. Abel / Will Shortz |
| 24 Oct 2005 | 53D | Film part | Lynn Lempel / Will Shortz |
| 2 Oct 2005 | 62A | Part | Randolph Ross / Will Shortz |
| 27 Jun 2005 | 54D | Actor’s part | Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette / Will Shortz |
| 6 Feb 2005 | 72A | It may be played | Joel Kaplow / Willl Shortz |
| 2 Feb 2005 | 65A | Auditioner’s goal | Richard Leva and Nancy Salomon / Will Shortz |
| 2 Jan 2005 | 99A | Function | Patrick Merrell / Will Shortz |
| 20 Dec 2004 | 14A | Audition goal | Kyle Mahowald / Will Shortz |
| 20 Nov 2004 | 34A | Character | Robert H. Wolfe / Will Shortz |
| 27 Sep 2004 | 56D | Play part | Gregory Paul / Will Shortz |
| 4 Aug 2004 | 15A | Part to play | Raymond Hamel / Will Shortz |
| 31 Jul 2004 | 62A | Capacity | Byron Walden / Will Shortz |
| 12 Jul 2004 | 28D | Part in a play | Gregory E. Paul / Will Shortz |
| 1 Jun 2004 | 16A | Starlet’s goal | Fred Piscop / Will Shortz |
| 29 Mar 2004 | 56A | Stage part | Barry Silk / Will Shortz |
| 20 Mar 2004 | 30A | Play thing? | Byron Walden / Will Shortz |
| 11 Mar 2004 | 13A | Part | Jeremy Thomas Paine / Will Shortz |
| 9 Feb 2004 | 63A | Film part | Robert Dillman / Will Shortz |
| 4 Jan 2004 | 40D | Goal of a tryout | Patrick Merrell / Will Shortz |
| 16 Dec 2003 | 34A | Actor’s pursuit | M. Francis Vuolo / Will Shortz |
| 20 Sep 2003 | 53D | Part | Bob Peoples / Will Shortz |
| 16 Aug 2003 | 2D | Lady Macbeth, e.g. | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
| 31 Jul 2002 | 39D | Lady Macbeth, e.g. | Jerry E. Rosman / Will Shortz |
| 23 Jul 2002 | 34A | Hamlet, in “Hamlet” | Randall J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
| 25 Jun 2002 | 36D | Something to play | Kelly Clark / Will Shortz |
| 10 Apr 2002 | 62A | Hamlet or Ophelia | Gregory Casagrande / Will Shortz |
| 6 Jan 2002 | 86A | Hat, symbolically | Frank A. Longo / Will Shortz |
| 31 Oct 2001 | 55D | Lady Macbeth, e.g. | Mary Pat Hidding / Will Shortz |
| 18 Jun 2001 | 14A | Starring ___ | Sherry O. Blackard / Will Shortz |
| 11 Dec 2000 | 57D | Part to play | Myles Callum / Will Shortz |
| 9 Nov 2000 | 15A | Play thing? | Richard Silvestri / Will Shortz |
| 8 Oct 2000 | 83D | Stage part | Richard Silvestri / Will Shortz |
| 21 Sep 2000 | 34D | Rocky, for Stallone | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 14 Jul 2000 | 7D | Auditioner’s quest | Brendan Emmett Quigley / Will Shortz |
| 4 Jul 2000 | 36A | Character | Tyler Hinman / Will Shortz |
| 26 Jun 2000 | 14A | Film part | Peter Gordon / Will Shortz |
| 23 May 2000 | 35D | It has lines | Monica Krausse / Will Shortz |
| 13 Aug 1999 | 65A | Cameo, e.g. | Frances Hansen / Will Shortz |
| 1 Jun 1999 | 37A | It must be cast | Myles Callum / Will Shortz |
| 20 Apr 1999 | 68A | Part | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 8 Mar 1999 | 16A | Malcolm X, for Denzel Washington | Gregory E. Paul / Will Shortz |
| 16 Feb 1999 | 58D | Part | Randy Sowell / Will Shortz |
| 17 Jan 1999 | 31A | Function | Cathy Millhauser / Will Shortz |
| 15 Oct 1998 | 26D | Cameo, say | David J. Kahn / Will Shortz |
| 11 May 1998 | 58D | Part to play | Gregory E. Paul / Will Shortz |
| 19 Mar 1998 | 42A | Character | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
| 8 Feb 1998 | 82A | Part | Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz |
| 5 Jan 1998 | 33D | Part to play | Mark Moldowsky / Will Shortz |
| 14 Oct 1997 | 62A | Part to play | Robert Malinow / Will Shortz |
| 1 Aug 1997 | 45D | Cameo, maybe | Gerald R. Ferguson / Will Shortz |
| 30 Mar 1997 | 76A | Lady Macbeth, for one | Elizabeth C. Gorski / Will Shortz |
| 14 Feb 1997 | 4D | Hamlet, e.g. | J. R. Conrad / Will Shortz |
| 30 Dec 1996 | 20A | Part to play | C. F. Murray / W. Shortz |
| 23 Dec 1996 | 48A | Play part | S. J. Walther / W. Shortz |
| 29 Sep 1996 | 66D | Character | M. Reagle / W. Shortz |
| 10 Sep 1996 | 22D | Romeo, e.g. | G. E. Paul / W. Shortz |
| 9 Sep 1996 | 55D | Part to play | S. L. Robbins / W. Shortz |
| 10 Jul 1996 | 7D | Stage part | Diane C. Baldwin / Will Shortz |
| 27 May 1996 | 34A | Kind of model | N. Steinberg / W. Shortz |
| 24 Mar 1996 | 117D | Position to fill | J. K. Brill / Will Shortz |
| 12 Mar 1996 | 64A | Part | R. J. Hartman / Will Shortz |
| 8 Feb 1996 | 2D | Speaking___ | Alex K. Justin / Will Shortz |
| 28 Jan 1996 | 110A | Capacity | M. W. Perry / Will Shortz |
| 2 Dec 1995 | 10D | Capacity | Rich Norris/Will Shortz |
| 29 Oct 1995 | 44A | Cast assignment | Maura B. Jacobson / Will Shortz |
| 6 Feb 1995 | 11D | Part to play | Gregory E. Paul / Will Shortz |
| 8 Dec 1994 | 54A | Portrayal | Randolph Ross/Will Shortz |
| 1 May 1994 | 24A | Part | Peter Gordon/Will Shortz |
| 5 Feb 1994 | 2D | Star’s vehicle | Rand H. Burns / Will Shortz |
| 10 Jan 1994 | 24A | Part | Randolph Ross/Will Shortz |
| 30 Nov 1993 | 12D | Actor’s part | Joel Davajan/Will Shortz |
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