Dupin's creator

The answer

POE

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

Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for POE

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

• "The Raven" writer - used 132 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Raven" poet - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Gold Bug" author - used 56 times, most recently in 2025
• "Annabel Lee" poet - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Bells" writer - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• "Ulalume" writer - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Bells" author - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" author - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Edgar Allan ___ - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Raven" author - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Bells" poet - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Gold Bug" writer - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• "The Cask of Amontillado" author - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "Ulalume" poet - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• "The Purloined Letter" author - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Black Cat" author - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Purloined Letter" writer - used 19 times, most recently in 2021
• "The Raven" poet Edgar Allan ___ - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Annabel Lee" writer - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• "Lenore" poet - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" writer - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Ulalume" author - used 16 times, most recently in 2012
• "Lenore" writer - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Pit and the Pendulum" author - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Usher's creator - used 13 times, most recently in 2017
• Detective story pioneer - used 12 times, most recently in 2019
• Master of the macabre - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• "Once upon a midnight dreary" poet - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• "Tamerlane" poet - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Baltimore Ravens mascot - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "Israfel" poet - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• "The Cask of Amontillado" writer - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" writer - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Annabel Lee" author - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Mystery story pioneer - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Raven maven? - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Baltimore Ravens mascot named for an author - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Once upon a midnight dreary" writer - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Author Edgar Allan __ - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Author of "The Gold Bug" - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Author of "The Raven" - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Creator of the Ushers - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• "The Black Cat" writer - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• "The Conqueror Worm" poet - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" writer - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• U.S. writer - used 8 times, most recently in 1973
• "A Descent Into the Maelstrom" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Macabre master - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• "The Masque of the Red Death" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Raven" penner - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• American poet - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Macabre author - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" author - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Pit and the Pendulum" writer - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Premature Burial" author - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• "The Premature Burial" writer - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Writer Edgar Allan __ - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• 007 creator Fleming - IAN, used 71 times
• "Queen Sugar" creator DuVernay - AVA, used 43 times
• "Hamilton" creator ___-Manuel Miranda - LIN, used 41 times
• Bond creator Fleming - IAN, used 39 times
• James Bond creator Fleming - IAN, used 30 times
• "The Twilight Zone" creator Serling - ROD, used 28 times

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