The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word OSCARWILDE , but the solution may also be CALVINCOOLIDGE which is one of the most recent solution (2010 in CrossSynergy).
Author of the quip crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| OSCARWILDE | 11 % | 10 |
| LILYTOMLIN | 11 % | 10 |
| JACKIEMASON | 11 % | 11 |
| HAROLDROME | 11 % | 10 |
| MILTONBERLE | 11 % | 11 |
| STEVENWRIGHT | 11 % | 12 |
| ALFREDENEUMAN | 11 % | 13 |
| CALVINCOOLIDGE | 11 % | 14 |
| WALTERWINCHELL | 11 % | 14 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Author of the quip
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Crossword Answer definitions
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 OSCARWILDE
- "De Profundis" writer
- "The Picture of Dorian Gray" author
- Author born 10/16/1854
- Muppet's favorite poet?
- "The Decay of Lying" author
- "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" poet
- "Salome" playwright
- Source of quote
- Dorian Gray creator
- Poet-dramatist, burlesqued in "Patience."
More clues leading to the result LILYTOMLIN
- "Laugh-In's" "Ernestine"
- "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" star
- Author of the quip
- Telephone operator Ernestine creator
- Actress whose 1984 movie has a title formed by the starts of 17-, 38-, and 60-Across
- 2003 winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
- "All of Me" actress whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Emmy-winning comedienne
- Comedienne who played a secretary in "9 to 5"
- Comedienne from Detroit
More clues leading to the result JACKIEMASON
- "Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe" comic
- Stoneworker-comic?
- Author of the quip
More clues leading to the result HAROLDROME
- Broadway composer of "Fanny"
- "Fanny" tunesmith
- "Fanny" composer and lyricist
- Composer of "Fanny."
- Author of the quip
- Broadway lyricist/composer who wrote "I Can Get It for You Wholesale"
- Fanny composer
More clues leading to the result MILTONBERLE
- "I adore seafood, especially saltwater taffy"
- "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" star
- Comic, and source of the observation
- "Uncle" to early TV viewers
- TV immortal quoted at 25/34/43 Across
- "Mr. Television"
- Author of the quip
- "Texaco Star Theater" star
- TV "Uncle."
- "Texaco Star Theater" host
More clues leading to the result STEVENWRIGHT
- Speaker of the quip
- Author of this puzzle's quip
- Comic who inspired this puzzle's theme query
- Source of quip
- AUTHOR OF THE QUIP
More clues leading to the result ALFREDENEUMAN
- Mad Magazine boy
- Mad man?
- Ubiquitous Mad Magazine guy
- One on many covers since 1954
- Author of the quip
- Norman Minco's comic character
- Mad man in a magazine
More clues leading to the result CALVINCOOLIDGE
- Author of the quip
- President who signed the Indian Citizenship Act
- Warren Harding's successor
- President
- Celebrity born July 4, 1872
- Start of a Will Rogers quip
- "I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say"
- President who was 65-Across (1872)
- President born on July 4th
- "Also, the GOP was gutting higher education, which Vermont is famous for. We've got Middlebury College, Bennington College, and, most famous politically, ___."