Clues for the word "MELODRAMA"
We've had 36 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 44 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on February 04, 2026.
Definition of melodrama
- n. - Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
Referring Clues
- Ham production?
- Soap ingredient?
- Film genre
- Sensational story
- Many a soap opera
- Common soap ingredient
- Overwrought behavior
- Movie serial genre
- Extravagantly theatrical play
- Sentimental movie
- Tear-jerker
- Silents genre
- Emotional show
- Over-sensational play
- Histrionics forced earldom into a reduced state
- Play about indulging in OTT sentimentality
- Sensational type of play
- Model savaged by sheep - a heart-rending performance
- Histrionics - sensational play
- Said to be genially drunk on a wee whisky, a piece of exaggeration
- Sensational acts curtailing music over much of 19
- Play that made moral, perhaps?
- Mad Men's lead role - a sad performance
- Sensational play upset moral dame
- Moral made obscure in sensational play
- Sensational account of what sounds like a peaceful drink with American
- Tune mainly hit a sensational performance
- Play short tune, hit by American originally
- Play short tune, hit by Anastacia initially
- Histrionic behaviour in reportedly ripe play
- Play tune no end, hit by Armstrong originally
- Sensational affair for older characters among mothers
- Soap opera genre
- “Hamlet” actor Gibson in Ireland?
- Plot-heavy work
- A type of tear-jerker film
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - February 04, 2026
- LA Times - October 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 18, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 13, 2024
- Family Time - November 18, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 16, 2024
- LA Times - October 20, 2022
- Mirror Daily - July 26, 2022
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 09, 2016
- Netword - October 27, 2016
- Mirror Daily - October 19, 2016
- USA Today - June 12, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - May 14, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - November 13, 2014
- Netword - January 01, 2014
- Wall Street Journal - August 02, 2013
- New York Times - February 01, 2013
- Washington Post - March 31, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - February 26, 2012
- Guardian Quick - August 11, 2011
- Netword - June 17, 2011
- New York Times - April 30, 2011
- Guardian Quick - April 09, 2011
- Guardian Quiptic - February 01, 2010
- Guardian Quick - December 06, 2009
- Guardian Everyman - August 02, 2009
- Guardian Everyman - January 18, 2009
- Guardian Quiptic - November 10, 2008
- And in 14 more crossword puzzles...