"Ragged Dick" writer
The crossword clue ""Ragged Dick" writer" is answered by ALGER, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 4 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 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 4 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
- "Luck and Pluck" author - used 18 times, most recently in 2012
- 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
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.
- Writer Jong - ERICA, used 137 times
- Writer Calvino - ITALO, used 77 times
- Writer Zola - EMILE, used 74 times
- Writer Loos - ANITA, used 54 times
- Writer Nin - ANAIS, used 51 times
- Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns - ADELA, used 50 times
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