Hiss of history
The crossword clue "Hiss of history" is answered by ALGER, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ALGER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALGER answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ALGER
Every other clue in this collection answered by ALGER, most used first.
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- Writer Horatio - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
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- Tattered Tom's creator - used 16 times, most recently in 2014
- Horatio ___ - used 11 times, most recently in 1997
- Rags-to-riches writer - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- "Tattered Tom" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- "Ragged Dick" writer - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Piece of history - RELIC, used 26 times
- Bit of history - EVENT, used 14 times
- Period of history - EPOCH, used 13 times
- Period in history - EPOCH, used 11 times
- Alabama city in civil rights history - SELMA, used 10 times
- Become part of history - OCCUR, used 6 times
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