Prolific auth.
The crossword clue "Prolific auth." is answered by ANON, a 4-letter entry. Used 31 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ANON
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANON answer page.
Used 31 times across 22 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1980. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANON
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANON, most used first.
- Shortly - used 267 times, most recently in 2026
- Soon - used 233 times, most recently in 2026
- Presently - used 165 times, most recently in 2026
- Auth. unknown - used 102 times, most recently in 2025
- By and by - used 87 times, most recently in 2021
- Erelong - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- In a while - used 64 times, most recently in 2021
- Ever and ___ - used 59 times, most recently in 2024
- Soon, poetically - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- In a bit - used 55 times, most recently in 2024
- Unknown author, for short - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Soon, to a bard - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Before long - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Ever's partner - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Later - used 39 times, most recently in 2020
- Shortly, in poems - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Bartlett's abbr. - used 33 times, most recently in 2019
- Soon, to Shakespeare - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Author unknown, for short - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- At another time - used 29 times, most recently in 2008
- Quote-book abbr. - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Poetic adverb - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- In due time - used 25 times, most recently in 2015
- Shortly, to Shakespeare - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Soon, in verse - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
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