"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" author

The answer

LECARRE

7 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LECARRE answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• JOHNLECARRE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for LECARRE

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• "Smiley's People" author - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Smiley's creator - used 10 times, most recently in 2011
• "A Perfect Spy" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2018

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