Clues for the word "TWAIN"
We've had 109 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 130 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on January 20, 2026.
Definition of twain
- a. & n. - Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.
Referring Clues
- The Finn man
- Injun Joe creator
- An author or two (5)
- Aunt Polly's creator
- "What Is Man?" essayist
- "Tom Sawyer" author
- Wit who wrote "When in doubt, tell the truth"
- "Huckleberry Finn" author
- Creator of Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Clemens, familiarly
- Mark of literary distinction
- Tom Sawyer's creator
- "A Tramp Abroad" author
- Creator of Sawyer and Finn
- "Roughing It" writer
- Hannibal lecturer
- Singer Shania
- Creator of Muff Potter
- "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits" quipper
- "Truth is more of a stranger than fiction" writer
- "Eve's Diary" writer
- Sawyer's creator
- Tom Sawyer creator
- Huck Finn's creator
- General Grant's publisher
- "The Prince and the Pauper" author
- "The Gilded Age" co-author
- Book Mark?
- Writer buried in Elmira
- Mark, of Finn fame
- "Achilles and the Tortoise" author Mark
- Pudd'nhead's creator
- Hannibal's favorite son
- Finn creator
- Autobiography byline of 2010
- "The Prince and the Pauper" author
- "Eve's Diary" writer
- Mark with a mustache
- Jumping frog creator
- Clemens pseudonym
- Country singer Shania
- Author depicted next to a steamboat on a 2011 stamp
- Pen name for Clemens
- Who said "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children"
- "Pudd'nhead Wilson" author
- "Is Shakespeare Dead?" writer
- Clemens nom de plume
- Mark who created Tom Sawyer
- Shania ______ (Juno Artist of 2003)
- He said, "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to"
- "The Innocents Abroad" author
- Our Valentine song singer
- Clemens' pen name
- Clemens alias
- Who wrote "When in doubt, tell the truth"
- Creator of Finn and Sawyer
- "The Prince and the Pauper" author Mark
- Creator of Sawyer
- Clemens' pseudonym
- Sawyer's chronicler
- With "the," East and West, in a Kipling ballad
- Two, once
- Two - Mark! (5)
- Two
- "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get" author
- Shania
- Two of the same kind
- Ultimate in American wit, a funny author
- 26 or 9 inspiring a writer
- A writer Kipling never expected to meet
- Two - Mark!
- Mark two
- US author Mark, attributed with the quote "golf is a good walk spoiled"
- Pair (archaic) - US novelist, Mark
- He wrote books in two parts
- Old couple who wrote amusingly
- American author - two
- Mark, US writer
- Two, formerly
- Mark ___ , American writer
- Mark 2
- I want (anag)
- Discipline of toddler when two?
- Mark this American author
- He wrote about Sawyer
- Mark II
- Mark ___, pseudonym of Samuel L Clemens
- Mark, for example, a pair
- US writer has drop of American in double
- 2's double embracing ace
- Match captivating a US author
- Old couple needing time on the wagon
- Tango with a modern writer
- Faulkner's "father of American literature"
- Huck Finn creator
- Prince/pauper author
- Finn’s creator
- Mark I want to make
- Mark who created Huck Finn
- "That Don't Impress Me Much" singer Shania
- Country music great Shania
- Author Mark ___
- "When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade" writer
- Holding a match for the writer
- Eponym for an annual prize for American humor
- "The father of American literature," per Faulkner
- Clemens handle
- "Life on the Mississippi" memoirist
- American author whose life span closely coincided with Halley's comet visits
Last Seen In
- New York Times - January 20, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 12, 2026
- Daily American - July 18, 2025
- New York Times - April 04, 2025
- LA Times - December 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 07, 2024
- New York Times - July 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 22, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 12, 2024
- New York Times - December 31, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 05, 2023
- Daily American - July 18, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 15, 2022
- New York Times - October 20, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 30, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - January 12, 2018
- LA Times - October 26, 2017
- USA Today - September 01, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 31, 2017
- Daily American - July 18, 2017
- Guardian Weekend - June 24, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - January 05, 2017
- Universal - December 12, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - November 30, 2016
- LA Times - September 12, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 28, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 28, 2016
- Universal - June 03, 2016
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