Creator of J. Alfred Prufrock

The answer

ELIOT

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

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1953. 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

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• TSELIOT (3 uses in xd)

Other clues for ELIOT

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

• Poet T.S. - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
• "Middlemarch" author - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Waste Land" poet - used 63 times, most recently in 2025
• "Silas Marner" author - used 56 times, most recently in 2024
• Prufrock's creator - used 52 times, most recently in 2017
• "Adam Bede" author - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cats" poet - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• T.S. or George - used 28 times, most recently in 2016
• "Silas Marner" author George - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Silas Marner" novelist - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Author T.S. - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Ness of "The Untouchables" - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• Silas Marner's creator - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• "Ash Wednesday" poet - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• "Four Quartets" poet - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• "Middlemarch" novelist - used 15 times, most recently in 2023
• "The Wasteland" poet - used 15 times, most recently in 2008
• Untouchable Ness - used 15 times, most recently in 2014
• Writer T.S. - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• "Adam Bede" novelist - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• "The Hollow Men" poet - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Marner's creator - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• "Middlemarch" author George - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• George or T.S. - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• "Silas Marner" novelist George - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Waste Land" poet T.S. - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Middlemarch" novelist George - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "Adam Bede" author George - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• T-man Ness - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• T.S. __ - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" poet - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Thomas Stearns __ - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• 1948 Literature Nobelist - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• George who was Mary - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Nobel prize poet. - used 8 times, most recently in 1963
• Poet who inspired "Cats" - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• "Romola" author - used 8 times, most recently in 2000
• "A Cooking Egg" poet - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Creator of Prufrock - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Economist Janeway - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• "Murder in the Cathedral" playwright - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Novelist George - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Part of T.S.E. - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• T.S. who inspired "Cats" - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "Gerontion" poet - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Prufrock poet - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• T.S. of literature - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• "The Mill on the Floss" author - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• "The Naming of Cats" poet - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• "The Untouchables" character Ness - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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