Crossword-Solution: AUTHOR 6 letters, 133 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Author n. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence,
the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
Author n. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as
distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
Author n. The editor of a periodical.
Author n. An informant.
Author v. t. To occasion; to originate.
Author v. t. To tell; to say; to declare.

We have 133 clues for the answer “AUTHOR”

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Anonymous one, sometimes 1 answer
Appreciative cry after a play 1 answer
Austen, Alcott or Angelou 1 answer
Budd Schulberg, for instance. 1 answer
Card catalog datum 1 answer
Creator of written work 1 answer
Curtain call on a first night. 1 answer
Curtain-call cry. 1 answer
Curtain-call figure. 1 answer
Dan Brown or Amy Tan 1 answer
Dickens or Doyle 1 answer
First-nighter's cry. 1 answer
Fleming or Hemingway 1 answer
Glasgow or London 1 answer
Glasgow, London or France 1 answer
Grey or Tan, e.g. 1 answer
Hanya Yanagihara, for the novel "A Little Life" 1 answer
Harold Robbins or Robin Cook 1 answer
J.K. Rowling, for one 1 answer
King or Sheldon 1 answer
Lamb or Rice 1 answer
London or Manchester, e.g. 1 answer
Mailer or Miller 1 answer
Mailer, for one 1 answer
Manuscript producer 1 answer
Manuscript sender 1 answer
Book creator 1 answer
Name on a book jacket 1 answer
Name on a jacket 1 answer
Novel producer 1 answer
Often-doubled cry at a play 1 answer
One who decides on sentences? 1 answer
One who pens 1 answer
One who works with a lot of characters 1 answer
One with a byline 1 answer
One writes to the French thunder god 1 answer
Opening-night call 1 answer
Orwell or Wells 1 answer
Partner in merger #3 (2 letters) 1 answer
Patricia Highsmith, for example 1 answer
Playwright, e.g. 1 answer
Pope or King 1 answer
Producer of written work 1 answer
Sarah Waters or Patricia Highsmith 1 answer
Spine handle 1 answer
Stephen King or Ellery Queen 1 answer
Swift or Crane 1 answer
Talk show guest, often 1 answer
Tan or Brown 1 answer
Text originator 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AUTHOR (5)

Thus _Beelzebub_ Pleaded his devilish Counsel, first devis’d By _Satan_, and in part propos’d: for whence, But from the Author of all ill could Spring So deep a malice, to confound the race Of mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell To mingle and involve, done all to spite The great Creatour? But thir spite still serves His glory to augment.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
When the sum at which they were valued was named, he pointed to a figure of himself, saying to the Sculptor, “You will certainly want much more for this, as it is the statue of the Messenger of the Gods, and author of all your gain.” The Sculptor replied, “Well, if you will buy these, I’ll fling you that into the bargain.” The Swan and the Goose A CERTAIN rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Primitive Colors[1] [1] The author's classification of colors has been retained, though it does not entirely accord with the theories of modern science.
Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy AUTHOR OF “A PAIR OF BLUE EYES,” “UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE,” ETC.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The first time was three or four years since, when I favoured the reader—inexcusably, and for no earthly reason that either the indulgent reader or the intrusive author could imagine—with a description of my way of life in the deep quietude of an Old Manse.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with AUTHOR (3)

Because this absolutely insane - the craziest thing I'd ever done. Worse than giving a one-star review, scarier than asking for an interview with an author I'd give my firstborn to eat lunch with, more stupid than kissing Daemon.
Jennifer L. Armentrout Obsidian
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
Eugene Ionesco
Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other.
Martha Cooley The Archivist
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 92 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).