"The Mill on the Floss" author

The answer

ELIOT

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Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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 J. Alfred Prufrock - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• 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 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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