"Luck and Pluck" author

The answer

ALGER

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALGER answer page.

Used 18 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 5 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.

• Author Horatio - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• Rags-to-riches author - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Writer Horatio - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• Rags-to-riches author Horatio - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• "Ragged Dick" author - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• 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
• Hiss of history - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• "Tattered Tom" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• "Ragged Dick" writer - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

Related clues

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• Author Jong - ERICA, used 196 times
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• Author Calvino - ITALO, used 151 times
• Author Zola - EMILE, used 131 times
• On the up and up - LEGIT, used 124 times

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