Telegraph inventor

The answer

MORSE

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

Used 21 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1997. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• SAMUELMORSE (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for MORSE

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

• Code name - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
• Code creator - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• ___ code - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Code man - used 9 times, most recently in 2009
• Kind of code - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Telegraph pioneer - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Man with a code - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Telegrapher's __ code - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Telegraphy pioneer - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "What hath God wrought?" sender - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Code inventor - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Code with dots and dashes - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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