"Waverley" novelist

The answer

SCOTT

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

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SCOTT

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

• "Ivanhoe" author - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Composer Joplin - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Great guy? - used 13 times, most recently in 2019
• Patton portrayer - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• "Great ___!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• "Ivanhoe" novelist - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• "Rob Roy" writer - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• "Dilbert" creator Adams - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• "Ivanhoe" writer - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• "Rob Roy" author - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Sir Walter - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
• Francis __ Key - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Key's middle name - used 8 times, most recently in 2007

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.

• Novelist Jong - ERICA, used 90 times
• Novelist Zola - EMILE, used 88 times
• Novelist Calvino - ITALO, used 60 times
• Novelist Joyce Carol __ - OATES, used 31 times
• Novelist Glasgow - ELLEN, used 30 times
• Novelist Cather - WILLA, used 27 times

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