The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word POE , but the solution may also be RLS which is one of the most recent solution (1968 in New York Times).
Literary light crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| POE | 19 % | 3 |
| ELIOT | 15 % | 5 |
| GBS | 15 % | 3 |
| RLS | 12 % | 3 |
| SHAW | 8 % | 4 |
| DANTE | 8 % | 5 |
| BYRON | 8 % | 5 |
| IBSEN | 4 % | 5 |
| OCASEY | 4 % | 6 |
| MANN | 4 % | 4 |
| TWAIN | 4 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Literary light
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- dante
- byron
- eliot
- mann
- poe
- shaw
- twain
- ibsen
- pastel
- sketch
- sketching
- bagatelle
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 POE
- "Ulalume" author
- "For Annie" penner
- "The Raven" penner
- Macabre writer
- Nineteenth century horror author
- Raven maven
- "The Raven" author
- "The Gold Bug" writer
- Author with a museum in Richmond, Virginia
- Author beloved by goths
More clues leading to the result ELIOT
- "Four Quarters" poet
- Creator of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Fed Ness
- T.S. or George
- aka (Mary Ellen) Evans
- "Cats" lyricist
- Author of "Silas Marner"
- Creator of Prufrock
- Prufrock poet
- "Adam Bede" penner
More clues leading to the result GBS
- Literary monogram
- Literary initials
- Famous playwright's monogram
- Pygmalion monogram
- "Major Barbara" monogram
- "Pygmalion" monogram
- "Mrs. Warren's Profession" monogram
- "Man and Superman" initials
- Irish playwright's monogram
- "Pygmalion" playwright's monogram
More clues leading to the result RLS
- "Kidnapped" auth.
- "Treasure Island" inits.
- "Treasure Island" monogram
- Literary monogram
- Literary inits.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde monogram
- Kidnapped monogram
- Mr. Hyde's creator
- "Prince Otto" author's initials
- "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" author's initials
More clues leading to the result SHAW
- "Man and Superman" author
- Robert of "Jaws"
- "Arms and the Man" playwright
- "Heartbreak House" writer
- George Bernard or Artie
- "Pygmalion" playwright
- British author
- Artie of jazz
- "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" speaker
- "Caesar and Cleopatra" playwright
More clues leading to the result DANTE
- "Purgatorio" writer
- "The Divine Comedy" poet
- Author of The Divine Comedy
- Composer Satie
- Infernal poet?
- __ Alighieri
- "The Inferno" author
- Writer who put himself through hell
- "Inferno" author
- "The Supreme Poet"
More clues leading to the result BYRON
- "Hours Of Idleness" poet
- British romantic poet
- Romantic poet
- Literary father of Ada Lovelace
- "Don Juan" poet
- Poet who swam the Hellespont
- "She Walks in Beauty" poet
- Golfer Nelson
- Creator of "Don Juan"
- Lord of verse
More clues leading to the result IBSEN
- "A Doll's House" playwright
- "Ghosts" writer
- "Ghosts" writer Henrik
- "Peer Gynt" penner
- Norwegian playwright
- Playwright Henrik
- Peer Gynt playwright
- "A Doll's House" author
- "Emperor and Galilean" playwright
- "Ghosts" playwright
More clues leading to the result OCASEY
- "The Shadow of a Gunman" playwright Sean
- Irish dramatist
- Irish dramatist Sean
- _Purple Dust_ playwright
- Irish playwright Sean
- "Purple Dust" playwright Sean
- "The Plough and the Stars" playwright Sean
- "The Plough and the Stars" playwright
- "Juno and the Paycock" playwright
- Dublin-born dramatist
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 TWAIN
- Mark who said "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company"
- "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" singer (hate me later for giving you the earworm)
- Who said "Golf is a good walk spoiled"
- Clemens' pseudonym
- "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" singer
- "Roughing It" writer
- Mark of humor writing
- Finn's creator
- Huck Finn's creator
- Author of quotation