Answer to "German author" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GRASS , but the solution may also be RILKE which is one of the most recent solution (1971 in New York Times).

German author crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
GRASS	20 %	5
REMARQUE	20 %	8
MANN	20 %	4
RILKE	20 %	5
BRECHT	20 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: German author

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

• mann
• rilke
• brecht
• grass
• hesse
• freytag
• arthur zimmermann
• gottfried von strassburg
• wolfram von eschenbach
• ernst
• grimm
• hans

Crossword Answer definitions

GRASS noun

1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. A lawn.
4. Marijuana.
5. An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
6. Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
7. Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
8. The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
9. That which is transitory.
10. (folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
11. The surface of a mine.

GRASS verb

1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
2. To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
3. To cover with grass or with turf.
4. To feed with grass.
5. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
6. To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

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 GRASS

• "The Tin Drum" author
• Fescue, for one
• Lawn
• Alternative to ass or gas
• Grounds growth
• Wimbledon surface
• Some organic clippings
• Bull's breakfast
• Green land?
• Hula skirt material

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 MANN

• Educator Horace
• Horace __, educator
• "Death In Venice" author Thomas
• "Death in Venice" author
• "The Magic Mountain" author Thomas
• Director of "Marty"
• "Buddenbrooks" novelist Thomas
• Herbie of jazz
• Buddenbrooks author
• "Voices Carry" singer

More clues leading to the result RILKE

• "Duineser Elegien" author
• "The Book of Hours" poet
• German poet
• German lyric poet
• Poet born in Prague
• Austrian 74-Across
• Sonnets to Orpheus poet
• German romantic poet Rainer Maria ___
• "The Sonnets to Orpheus" poet
• "The Sonnets to Orpheus" poet Rainer Maria ___

More clues leading to the result BRECHT

• Weill collaborator
• "The Threepenny Opera" writer Bertolt
• "Life of Galileo" playwright Bertolt
• "The Threepenny Opera" dramatist
• "Threepenny Opera" playwright
• German author.
• "Mahagonny" dramatist
• Bertolt, the playwright-poet
• "Mother Courage and Her Children" playwright
• Playwright Bertolt