"The Shield of Achilles" poet

The answer

AUDEN

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

Used 9 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1958. It appears in 4 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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• WHAUDEN (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for AUDEN

Every other clue in this collection answered by AUDEN, most used first.

• Poet W.H. - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Age of Anxiety" poet - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• "Funeral Blues" poet - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• "The Age of Anxiety" author - used 9 times, most recently in 2008
• "City Without Walls" poet - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Contemporary poet. - used 7 times, most recently in 1972
• "Homage to Clio" poet - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• "The Age of Anxiety" poet W.H. - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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