Novel underpinning
The crossword clue "Novel underpinning" is answered by PLOT, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PLOT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLOT answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2013; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PLOT
Every other clue in this collection answered by PLOT, most used first.
- Story line - used 89 times, most recently in 2024
- Scheme - used 77 times, most recently in 2025
- Conspiracy - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Storyline - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- "The ___ thickens!" - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Novel idea - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
- Cabal - used 23 times, most recently in 2006
- Conspire - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Secret plan - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Secret scheme - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Garden area - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Parcel of land - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Connive - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Intrigue - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
- Novel need - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Novel necessity - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Novel's essence - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Piece of land - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Book basis - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Cemetery purchase - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- It may thicken - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Machination - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Underhanded plan - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Novel's story line - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Novelist's need - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Author's concern - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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.
- Melville novel - OMOO, used 226 times
- Austen novel - EMMA, used 143 times
- Jane Austen novel - EMMA, used 119 times
- Zola novel - NANA, used 84 times
- Enjoy a novel - READ, used 58 times
- Nabokov novel - PNIN, used 54 times
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