Novelist Fleming
The crossword clue "Novelist Fleming" is answered by IAN, a 3-letter entry. Used 26 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
IAN
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IAN answer page.
Used 26 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1992. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for IAN
Every other clue in this collection answered by IAN, most used first.
- Author Fleming - used 275 times, most recently in 2026
- Actor McKellen - used 168 times, most recently in 2026
- Writer Fleming - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
- 007 creator Fleming - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- "At Seventeen" singer Janis - used 66 times, most recently in 2025
- Golfer Woosnam - used 65 times, most recently in 2025
- Singer Janis - used 53 times, most recently in 2024
- Fleming - used 45 times, most recently in 1999
- McKellen of "X-Men" - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
- Actor Holm - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
- Bond creator Fleming - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Scottish John - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- James Bond creator Fleming - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Actor McShane - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Swimmer Thorpe - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- James' creator - used 23 times, most recently in 2021
- "Atonement" author McEwan - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- McKellen who played Gandalf - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Novelist Deighton - LEN, used 109 times
- Spy novelist Deighton - LEN, used 95 times
- Novelist Rand - AYN, used 74 times
- Novelist Levin - IRA, used 60 times
- Novelist Tan - AMY, used 40 times
- Novelist Umberto - ECO, used 27 times
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