"The Glass Bead Game" author

The answer

HESSE

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Used 17 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HESSE

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

• "Steppenwolf" author - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
• "Siddhartha" author - used 90 times, most recently in 2023
• German state - used 25 times, most recently in 2018
• "Steppenwolf" author Hermann - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Wiesbaden's state - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• "Siddhartha" author Hermann - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
• "Siddhartha" writer - used 17 times, most recently in 2018
• 1946 Literature Nobelist - used 16 times, most recently in 2019
• "Demian" author - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
• "Siddhartha" novelist - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "Steppenwolf" writer - used 13 times, most recently in 2010
• Novelist Hermann - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Steppenwolf" novelist - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Siddhartha" novelist Hermann - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Frankfurt's state - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Steppenwolf" novelist Hermann - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Nobelist in Literature: 1946 - used 8 times, most recently in 1988
• Author Hermann - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Hermann who wrote "Siddhartha" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Hermann who wrote "Steppenwolf" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Glass Bead Game" author Hermann - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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