"Ben-Hur" novelist Wallace

The answer

LEW

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LEW answer page.

Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for LEW

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

• Actor Ayres - used 82 times, most recently in 2025
• "Ben-Hur" author Wallace - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Author Wallace - used 25 times, most recently in 2009
• Kareem, once - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• Hoad of tennis - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• Kareem, before - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
• Detective Archer - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Writer Wallace - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
• ___ Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's former name) - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• ___ Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's birth name) - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Ayres or Wallace - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Wallace who wrote "Ben-Hur" - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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.

• "Ben-___" - HUR, used 289 times
• 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
• "Ben-Hur" studio - MGM, used 44 times

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