Clues for the word "AUTHOR"
We've had 80 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 131 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on July 23, 2026.
Definition of author
- n. - The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
- n. - One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
- n. - The editor of a periodical.
- n. - An informant.
- v. t. - To occasion; to originate.
- v. t. - To tell; to say; to declare.
Referring Clues
- Lamb or Bacon
- J.K. Rowling, for one
- Novelist
- Lamb or Rice
- Writer
- Spine line
- Write
- Mailer or Miller
- Playwright, e.g.
- Bacon or Lamb
- Anonymous one, sometimes
- Name on a spine
- Name on a book jacket
- Card catalog datum
- Name on the cover
- Name included with any 43-Down
- Glasgow, London or France
- The case for public schools
- Talk show guest, often
- Playgoers shout
- One with a byline
- Dickens or Doyle
- King or Queen
- Pen holder?
- Book-maker?
- Novelist, e.g.
- Appreciative cry after a play
- Stephen King, e.g.
- Manuscript sender
- Touring pro, perhaps
- Creator
- Manuscript producer
- Originator
- Text originator
- Dan Brown or Amy Tan
- Scribe
- One who pens
- Novel creator
- Byline name
- 'The Daily Show' guest, often
- Theater shout
- Woman of letters
- Stephen King or Ellery Queen
- With 26-Across, 1982 Al Pacino film
- With 24-Across, 1962 P. G. Wodehouse book
- Patricia Highsmith, for example
- Often-doubled cry at a play
- Literary artist
- Songsmith
- Chesterton, perhaps, or the individual behind "Thursday"
- Source gold after gold filling falls out of tooth
- Producer of written work
- Writer - initiator
- Creator of written work
- Swift or Crane
- One creating gold gets most of the gold
- His work is bound to receive public attention
- He wrote "Gold, the Endless Gold"
- Hour at which working writer may be seen
- Creator of gold god
- Pen
- Novelist, say, taking gold for "God"
- Writer absorbed in taut horror movie
- He creates hollow teeth with gold top and bottom
- Someone who originates, causes or initiates something
- Golden god for writer
- Gold for god, the creator
- One foremost in universe - God the Creator
- Swift, perhaps, to gild god?
- Potter, say, placing gold above god
- Beginner's gold
- Orwell or Wells
- Mailer, for one
- Two lots of gold rings extremely tough for creator
- Figure at a book signing
- Character builder?
- *People in power
- Wilde or Wilder
- Book maker?
- Kazuo Ishiguro or Sally Rooney
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - July 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - June 15, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 23, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - March 18, 2025
- Daily American - February 05, 2025
- USA Today - November 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 16, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - April 24, 2024
- New York Times - April 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 29, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 27, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - May 22, 2023
- Mirror Daily - February 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 08, 2023
- Daily American - February 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - January 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - November 17, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 21, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 06, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - July 01, 2022
- New York Times - November 30, 2021
- And in 101 more crossword puzzles...