"Ragged Dick" author

The answer

ALGER

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

Used 17 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1983. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• HORATIOALGER (2 uses in xd)

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
• "Luck and Pluck" author - used 18 times, most recently in 2012
• Rags-to-riches author Horatio - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• 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

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.

• Author Jong - ERICA, used 196 times
• Author Calvino - ITALO, used 151 times
• Author Zola - EMILE, used 131 times
• "Steppenwolf" author - HESSE, used 95 times
• "Siddhartha" author - HESSE, used 90 times
• "Fear of Flying" author Jong - ERICA, used 73 times

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