Western writer Bret

The answer

HARTE

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

Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HARTE

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

• Writer Bret - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Author Bret - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Poker Flat chronicler - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
• "The Luck of Roaring Camp" writer - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" author - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Poker Flat creator - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
• Ah Sin's creator - used 11 times, most recently in 1999
• "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" writer - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• Creator of Truthful James - used 7 times, most recently in 1998
• Short-story writer Bret - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• "The Lost Galleon" poet - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Twain contemporary - used 6 times, most recently in 2015

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Writer Jong - ERICA, used 137 times
• Western resort lake - TAHOE, used 87 times
• Writer Calvino - ITALO, used 77 times
• Writer Zola - EMILE, used 74 times
• Western - OATER, used 65 times
• Writer Loos - ANITA, used 54 times

Search the clue collection

Search by clue words or by answer, or type a pattern with the letters you have and a blank for each square you do not know. The characters _ ? . and - all work as blanks.