American poet.
The crossword clue "American poet." is answered by BENET, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 1969. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BENET
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BENET answer page.
Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 1969. It appears in 2 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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- BRYANT (3 uses in xd)
Other clues for BENET
Every other clue in this collection answered by BENET, most used first.
- "John Brown's Body" poet - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Poet Stephen Vincent __ - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
- "The Devil and Daniel Webster" writer - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- "The Devil and Daniel Webster" author - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Stephen Vincent ___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Author of "John Brown's Body." - used 8 times, most recently in 1989
- "John Brown's Body" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
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