Answer to "Author" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word PEN which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2023.

Author crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
PEN	14 %	3
WRITER	7 %	6
WRITE	6 %	5
PENNER	6 %	6
SCRIBE	4 %	6
PENMAN	4 %	6
CREATOR	3 %	7
YEATS	1 %	5
BRETHARTE	1 %	9
HERMANWOUK	1 %	10
OHARA	1 %	5
SPENSER	1 %	7
TSELIOT	1 %	7
JACKLONDON	1 %	10
AAMILNE	1 %	7
DUMAURIER	1 %	9
LEOTOLSTOY	1 %	10
SALINGER	1 %	8
SIRE	1 %	4
CHRISTIE	1 %	8
JOHNDOSPASSOS	1 %	13
REMARQUE	1 %	8
STEIN	1 %	5
WODEHOUSE	1 %	9
ASCH	1 %	4
GIDE	1 %	4
ODETS	1 %	5
SMOLLETT	1 %	8
THOREAU	1 %	7
ZOLA	1 %	4
DANA	1 %	4
LEAR	1 %	4
ROTH	1 %	4
CHAPTERANDVERSE	1 %	15
CAMUS	1 %	5
HHMUNRO	1 %	7
PLATO	1 %	5
SPYRI	1 %	5
VONNEGUT	1 %	8
ADE	1 %	3
EDGARALLANPOE	1 %	13
MICHENER	1 %	8
SINCLAIR	1 %	8
CORNEILLE	1 %	9
LAWRENCE	1 %	8
ROSTAND	1 %	7
STODDARD	1 %	8

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Author

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

• writer
• source
• generator
• book
• novelist
• researcher
• creator
• editor
• contributor
• screenwriter
• originator
• artist

Crossword Answer definitions

PEN noun

1. An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
2. A prison cell.
3. The bullpen.

PEN verb

1. To enclose in a pen.

PEN noun

1. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
2. A writer, or his style.
3. Marks of ink left by a pen.
4. A light pen.
5. The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
6. A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
7. A wing.

PEN verb

1. To write (an article, a book, etc.).

PEN noun

1. A female swan.

PEN noun

1. Penalty.

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 PEN

• Compose
• Escritoire item
• Parker product
• Shirt-pocket stainer
• Sty
• Hoosegow
• Place to warm up
• Waterman or Parker
• Author's need
• Corral

More clues leading to the result WRITER

• Saul Bellow, for one
• Penner
• J.J. Abrams, for the 1997 Pesci-Glover buddy comedy "Gone Fishin'"
• Blog contributor
• Word processor user
• Scribe
• King or Koontz
• Wordsmith
• Columnist, e.g.
• Pencil pusher

More clues leading to the result WRITE

• Pen
• Author
• Jot down
• Use a pen
• Do some Picayune work
• Make plays?
• Put pen to paper
• Keep in touch
• Correspond
• Make tracts

More clues leading to the result PENNER

• One who writes
• Maker of ink sketches
• Bic wielder
• Author
• Writer
• Playwright, slangily
• Novelist, for instance
• Writer.
• Radio comic Joe
• He does the write thing

More clues leading to the result SCRIBE

• Journalist
• Drudge with a pen
• Writer of the Middle Ages
• Public clerk
• Man of letters?
• Book copier of old
• Copyist
• Writer, slangily
• Many a medieval monk
• Manuscript copyist

More clues leading to the result PENMAN

• Calligrapher
• Scribbler
• Writer
• Scribe
• Fine writer.
• Writer.
• Scribe.
• Author or convict
• Handwriting expert
• Author

More clues leading to the result CREATOR

• Author
• Former
• God, with "the"
• Frankenstein, to his monster
• Mastermind
• Inventive sort
• Mark Twain, to Tom Sawyer
• Artist, for example
• Inventive type
• Maker

More clues leading to the result YEATS

• Abbey Theatre cofounder
• "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" writer
• "The Winding Stair" poet
• "The Hour Glass" poet
• "Sailing to Byzantium" poet
• Dramatist who co-founded the Abbey Theatre
• Irish literary leader
• Irish poet W.B.
• Irish Nobelist of 1923
• Irish man of letters

More clues leading to the result BRETHARTE

• "Plain Language from Truthful James" author
• "The Luck of Roaring Camp" author
• "Tennessee's Partner" author
• "Plain Language From Truthful James" poet
• Western writer.
• Creator of Truthful James.
• "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" author.
• U.S. author
• Author
• "Devil's Ford" author

More clues leading to the result HERMANWOUK

• "The Caine Mutiny" novelist
• Creator of Captain Queeg.
• American novelist.
• Well-known novelist.
• Author
• Author of The Winds of War

More clues leading to the result OHARA

• "A Rage to Live" author John
• "Butterfield 8" author
• "Pal Joey" author
• "Pal Joey" penner
• Butler's lady
• Leigh role of '39
• Maureen of film
• Miss Scarlett or Maureen
• Mitchell belle
• Scarlett of Tara

More clues leading to the result SPENSER

• "The Faerie Queene" author
• "The Faerie Queene" poet
• Parker's private eye
• Author entombed near Chaucer in 1599, thus creating Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner
• "The Faerie Queen" poet
• Parker detective played by Urich on TV
• Robert B. Parker detective
• "Epithalamion" author
• Friend of Raleigh
• Parker detective

More clues leading to the result TSELIOT

• Ezra Pound protege
• "Ash Wednesday" poet
• "Whispers of Immortality" poet
• His work inspired Cats
• Nobel-winning poet
• "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" speaker
• "The Waste Land" poet
• Creator of J. Alfred Prufrock
• J. Alfred Prufrock's creator
• "...a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES" poet

More clues leading to the result JACKLONDON

• "An Odyssey of the North" short story writer
• Writer who created Buck
• "White Fang" author
• "Call of the Wild "author
• "Capitalist" novelist who wrote "White Fang"
• Author of 18 Across.
• Creator of Wolf Larsen.
• Author of "White Fang."
• "The Call of the Wild" author
• The Son of the Wolf author

More clues leading to the result AAMILNE

• Kanga's creator
• Christopher Robin's Dad
• "Now We Are Six" author
• Pooh-bah of childrens' lit, so to speak
• "A Gallery of Children" author
• "When We Were Very Young" author
• "When We Were Very Young" poet
• Pooh's creator
• Winnie the Pooh's creator
• Author of the poem "Teddy Bear"

More clues leading to the result DUMAURIER

• Best-selling novelist.
• Author of 18 Across.
• Author
• Dame Daphne
• "Rebecca" writer

More clues leading to the result LEOTOLSTOY

• Author of 47-Across
• "Anna Karenina" novelist
• *"War and Peace" author
• "War and Peace" author
• War and Peace novelist
• He novelized his Crimean War experiences
• Author
• He wrote "War and Peace"
• SCHOOLMASTER
• "A Confession" author

More clues leading to the result SALINGER

• "Nine Stories" author
• Holden Caulfield's creator
• "Franny and Zooey" author
• Caulfield's creator
• Caulfield creator
• Author of a 65+-million-selling novel
• Reclusive writer
• Creator of Zooey.
• Press Secretary.
• Creator of Franny and Zooey.

More clues leading to the result SIRE

• Royal address
• Id' s head man
• "Your majesty"
• Dam's mate
• Father
• Title of yore
• "Your excellency"
• Beget
• English address
• Paddock papa

More clues leading to the result CHRISTIE

• Mystery author whose work has been translated into more than 100 languages
• Novelist influenced by an early pharmacy job
• Creator of Hercule Poirot.
• Creator of M. Poirot and Miss Marple.
• A turn in skiing.
• English mystery writer.
• Creator of M. Poirot.
• Oscar winner
• Author
• O'Neill's Anna

More clues leading to the result JOHNDOSPASSOS

• Author

More clues leading to the result REMARQUE

• "All Quiet on the Western Front" author
• Author of "Im Westen Nichts Neues," 1929.
• German author.
• His latest novel is "Spark of Life."
• German novelist in the U. S.
• German novelist.
• The "All Quiet" man.
• Author
• " . . . Western Front" novelist
• "All Quiet on the Western Front" novelist

More clues leading to the result STEIN

• Bock vessel
• Lager holder
• Toklas companion
• "A rose is a rose is a rose" writer
• "Lost generation" coiner
• "You are all a lost generation" quoter
• Toklas' companion
• Mug
• Comedy Central game-show host
• Comedy Central game show host

More clues leading to the result WODEHOUSE

• Writer P.G. __
• Creator of Jeeves.
• Author
• P. G.
• "Author! Author!" autobiographer
• Author of "Carry On, Jeeves" and "Psmith in the City"

More clues leading to the result ASCH

• "The Nazarene" writer
• Writer Sholem
• "The Nazarene" author Sholem
• Playwright Shalom
• "The Nazarene" author
• "The Nazarene" novelist
• Author Sholem
• Yiddish writer Sholem
• Author of "The Nazarene"
• Yiddish author Sholem

More clues leading to the result GIDE

• Author of "The Immoralist"
• "L'Immoraliste" author André
• _The Immoralist_ author
• Existentialist Andre
• 1947 French Nobelist André
• 1947 literature Nobelist Andre
• French novelist André
• "L'immoraliste" author
• Literature Nobelist André
• "The Counterfeiters" author André

More clues leading to the result ODETS

• "Awake and Sing" dramatist
• "Golden Boy" writer
• "Golden Boy" writer Clifford
• "Waiting For Lefty" playwright
• "Golden Boy" playwright
• "Golden Boy" dramatist
• "The Country Girl" playwright
• Playwright Clifford
• Group Theatre playwright
• Dramatist Clifford

More clues leading to the result SMOLLETT

• Creator of Peregrine Pickle.
• Creator of Humphrey Clinker.
• Author
• British author
• Humphrey Clinker's creator

More clues leading to the result THOREAU

• Onetime Concord school-teacher
• "Civil Disobedience" author
• Walden Pond ponderer
• Noted Walden Pond resident
• Walden Pond writer
• "Walden" author
• Walden Pond resident
• "The Maine Woods" author
• "Simplify, simplify" source
• "Walden" writer

More clues leading to the result ZOLA

• "Nana" author Emile
• "Nana" author
• Olympic runner Budd
• Dreyfus defender
• Dreyfus affair author
• Nana author
• "J'accuse" author Emile
• "J'accuse" writer
• "La Débâcle" novelist Emile
• Writer Emile

More clues leading to the result DANA

• "SNL" alumnus Carvey
• Actor Andrews
• Comic Carvey
• Comical Carvey
• Andrews, the actor
• Comedian, ___ Carvey
• Agent Scully of The X-Files
• Plato on TV
• CNN correspondant Bash
• CNN's Bash or Fox News's Perino

More clues leading to the result LEAR

• Cordelia's father
• Private-jet maker
• Regan's dad
• Shakespeare's king
• Shakespearean king
• "Maude" creator Norman
• Shakespeare's legendary king
• Goneril's dad
• Kind of jet
• Scofield role

More clues leading to the result ROTH

• Investment account
• Portnoy's Philip
• Writer Philip Milton ___
• Jersey-born author Philip
• Portnoy's creator
• "Jamie's Crying" singer
• Horror film director Eli
• Kind of IRA
• Author of Good-bye Columbus
• Goodbye, Columbus author

More clues leading to the result CHAPTERANDVERSE

• Detailed information
• Complete citation
• The Bible
• Authoritative pair
• All the details
• Authority for a statement.
• Author
• The whole story
• Complete description

More clues leading to the result CAMUS

• "The Rebel" author
• Algerian-born writer
• 1957 Nobelist in literature
• "La Peste" novelist
• "The Myth of Sisyphus" author
• Big name in absurdism
• Writer who advised "Live to the point of tears"
• "No Exit" author
• "The Stranger" author Albert
• Author of "The Stranger"

More clues leading to the result HHMUNRO

• Saki
• Sake, really
• Creator of Clovis Sangrail
• Author better known as Saki
• Burma-born author with a famous pen name
• Saki.
• Author

More clues leading to the result PLATO

• Aristole's teacher
• Greek philosopher
• "Beetle Bailey" intellectual
• Aristotle's teacher
• "Theaetetus" philosopher
• Author of the Republic
• Socratic student
• Student of Socrates
• Wise old Athenian
• Academy founder

More clues leading to the result SPYRI

• "Heidi" author
• "Heidi" writer Johanna
• "Heidi" author Johanna
• "Heidi" creator Johanna
• Johanna who created Heidi
• "Heidi" author Johanna
• Heidi creator
• Heidi's creator
• Creator of Heidi.
• Author

More clues leading to the result VONNEGUT

• "Cat's Cradle" author
• Author Kurt of the four novels in this puzzle
• "Slaughterhouse-Five" author
• Kurt who wrote "Breakfast of Champions"
• *"Slaughterhouse-Five" author
• Novelist Kurt
• Creator of the religion Bokononism
• Author
• Author Kurt
• "Fates Worse Than Death" autobiographer

More clues leading to the result ADE

• Humorist George
• "Fables in Slang" author
• "Fables in Slang" author George
• "The College Widow" author
• Author George
• Fruit based drink
• Fruit drink
• Lemon cooler
• Lemon drink
• Lemon or lime ender

More clues leading to the result EDGARALLANPOE

• "The Gold Bug" author
• "MS. Found in a Bottle" author
• Author of the macabre
• "The Cask of Amontillado" writer
• "The Raven" poet
• "Once upon a midnight dreary . . ."
• Literary light of 19th Cen.
• Creator of Detective Dupin.
• Macabre master
• Stepquote author

More clues leading to the result MICHENER

• "Alaska" author
• See 45-Across
• "Hawaii" novelist
• Author of "Hawaii," "Alaska," and "Texas"
• "Space" man
• Author of "Iberia"
• His novel won 1948 Pulitzer Prize.
• "South Pacific" derives from his book.
• Pulitzer prize author.
• "The Bridge at Andau" author.

More clues leading to the result SINCLAIR

• "The Jungle" author
• Muckraker who wrote "King Coal"
• Satirist Lewis
• "The Jungle" novelist
• "Arrowsmith" Pulitzer decliner Lewis
• Writer Upton
• Literature Nobelist Lewis
• Pulitzer winner for "Dragon's Teeth"
• Esso rival
• Lanny Budd's creator.

More clues leading to the result CORNEILLE

• French dramatist (1606–84)
• Author
• French dramatist

More clues leading to the result LAWRENCE

• American naval hero
• Gertrude of 55 Down
• Kansas city in which you might spot a bird
• "Sons and Lovers" novelist
• Leader of the Arab revolt against the Turks
• "___ of Arabia"
• *With 71-Across, 1962
• Film role for O'Toole
• "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" autobiographer
• Recent star of "Pygmalion."

More clues leading to the result ROSTAND

• Author of "Cyrano de Bergerac."
• Cyrano's creator.
• Cyrano de Bergerac's creator.
• He wrote "Chanticleer.”
• French poet and dramatist.
• He wrote "L'Aiglon."
• Immortalizer of "Cyrano."
• French dramatist.
• Author
• "Cyrano de Bergerac" playwright

More clues leading to the result STODDARD

• Author