"Common Sense" author Thomas

The answer

PAINE

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

Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2007. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PAINE

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

• "Common Sense" author - used 62 times, most recently in 2025
• "Common Sense" writer - used 37 times, most recently in 2024
• "Common Sense" pamphleteer - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• "Common Sense" pamphleteer Thomas - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Pamphleteer Thomas - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Revolutionary pamphleteer - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• "The Age of Reason" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
• Thomas who wrote "Common Sense" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "Common Sense" man - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• "Common Sense" writer Thomas - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Pamphleteer of 1776 - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• "The Age of Reason" author Thomas - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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