The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word WELLS , but the solution may also be HGWELLS which is one of the most recent solution (2016 in LA Times).
"The War of the Worlds" author crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
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WELLS | 60 % | 5 |
HGWELLS | 40 % | 7 |
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Crossword Answer definitions
WELLS noun- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A source of supply.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- A well drink.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
- To have something seep out of the surface.
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 WELLS
- "The First Men in the Moon" author
- Dr. Moreau's creator
- Creator of Dr. Moreau
- Water sources
- Driller's projects
- Fargo's partner
- "The Invisible Man" author
- Author of "The Invisible Man"
- "The Island of Doctor Moreau" writer
- "The War of the Worlds" author
More clues leading to the result HGWELLS
- "The Time Machine" author
- Creator of the Eloi and the Morlocks
- "The War of the Worlds" writer
- Dr. Moreau's creator
- "Atomic bomb" coiner
- "The Invisible Man" author
- "The War of the Worlds" author
- "Men Like Gods" author
- "The Shape of Things to Come" author
- Sinclair Lewis nominated him for the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature