Word "AUTHOR" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
someone who originates or causes or initiates something
Synonyms:
generator, source

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
Synonyms:
writer

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
be the author of
Examples:
She authored this play

Crossword Clues for AUTHOR

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Book creator The Telegraph Quick 29 Aug 2025
Fleming or Hemingway Universal 01 Aug 2025
Professional bookie?
Six Characters in Search of an ___, 1921 play by Luigi Pirandello
Writer, Australian god of thunder (6)
He wrote 'Inside Story of an Astronaut' Horrible (6)
He tells a story about thunderous god who goes after gold (6)
Grey or Tan, e.g. Wall Street Journal 21 May 2025
Writer The Telegraph Quick 20 May 2025
His work is bound to receive public attention (6)
His efforts have been brought to book (6)
A god transfixed by university writer The Times Quick Cryptic 23 Apr 2025
Writer removes our hat (6) Puzzler Cryptic 15 Mar 2025
Writer's god is after gold (6)
Novelist (6) Puzzler 12 Feb 2025
In the juggernaut, horrible scenes are conjured up by him (6)
Literary artist
Writer Mirror Classic 24 Dec 2024
Writer removes our hat (6) Puzzler Cryptic 23 Dec 2024
Alphabetical by ___ (how books at libraries are often organized)
As a writer, thou art crazy to leave unfinished! (6)
Kazuo Ishiguro or Sally Rooney USA Today 18 Nov 2024
Kazuo Ishigura or Sally Rooney
Writer(6)
The writer of a book (6)
Writer The Times Concise 26 Oct 2024
Book writer Commuter 22 Oct 2024
To the French, all the same Republican cause? The Times Cryptic 19 Oct 2024
How we set our hat at a writer (6)
Book maker? Eugene Sheffer 24 Aug 2024
A writer of books
Writer Mirror Classic 30 Jul 2024
Or a hut is good enough for him to write in (6)
Book writer Commuter 16 Jul 2024
Writer, novelist
He writes of gold going to hammer thrower (6)
Biographer suggested Scandinavian fellow was after gold
Writer of "Gold-God" (6)
He has written ?The Gold God of Valhalla" (6)
Writer of books (6)
Writer of 'The Gilded God' (6)
Creator is a universal deity (6)
Pen New York Times 12 Apr 2024
Writer gives gold to god (6)
He has written a book about our hat (6)
Aslan to start with, Universal God for Lewis? The Times Cryptic 14 Mar 2024
Novel's creator (6)
Novelist The Telegraph Quick 09 Feb 2024
Writes from home or in a hut perhaps? (6)
Novelist, e.g. The Sun Two Speed 23 Dec 2023
A hut built for headless writer The Sun Two Speed 23 Dec 2023
One writing there’s a universal God The Times Quick Cryptic 06 Dec 2023
Austen, Alcott or Angelou
Novelist restyles our hat (6) Puzzler Cryptic 02 Dec 2023
Writer Premier Sunday 03 Sep 2023
Hanya Yanagihara, for the novel "A Little Life" Universal 09 Jul 2023
Writer The Telegraph Quick 13 Apr 2023
Writer, ‘a god', pens introduction to Ulysses
Writer, 'a god', pens introduction to Ulysses The Guardian Cryptic 05 Oct 2022
Writer of a book, article or document Irish Times Simplex 30 Apr 2022
Writer The Telegraph Quick 24 Apr 2022
A writer of a book, article or document Irish Times Simplex 07 Mar 2022
Her work is bound to be read by bookmaker Irish Times Crosaire 26 Feb 2022
Original creator The Guardian Quick 13 Jan 2022
Book maker? Eugene Sheffer 20 Nov 2021
Golden hammer, bearer's pen
Sarah Waters or Patricia Highsmith Universal 30 Jun 2021
Writer achieving gold with mythical character The Telegraph Cryptic 04 May 2021
Novelist The Telegraph Quick 28 Apr 2021
Writer of a hot novel about upper-class Romeo The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Apr 2021
Novelist The Sun Two Speed 04 Mar 2021
A hut built for headless writer The Sun Two Speed 04 Mar 2021
Her work is bound to be read by bookmaker Irish Times Crosaire 03 Feb 2021
One writes to the French thunder god The Sun Two Speed 19 Dec 2020
Stephen King or Ellery Queen New York Times 08 Sep 2020
Her work is bound to be read by bookseller Irish Times Crosaire 12 Aug 2020
A universal god creator
Architect gold-plated exterior of triumphal arch
Write The Times Concise 12 Jul 2020
Novelist, e.g LA Times Daily 07 Jul 2020
Novelist, e.g The Washington Post 07 Jul 2020
Her work is bound to be read by the bookmaker Irish Times Crosaire 18 May 2020
Car on run passing Henry 25 for one
Writer The Times Concise 03 Apr 2020
*People in power Universal 21 Mar 2020
Someone who writes in French, to the Thunderer?
Writer of a book, article or document Irish Times Simplex 30 Nov 2019
Writer Irish Times Simplex 17 Oct 2019
Write out earth's prime locations when travelling
Originator of a written work The Telegraph General Knowledge 23 Jun 2019
Puts pen to paper in chapter house releasing speech Irish Times Crosaire 28 May 2019
Writer Paul's inside with Norse god The Sun Two Speed 10 Apr 2019
Writer The Telegraph Quick 19 Mar 2019
Character builder? The Washington Post 13 Mar 2019
Character builder? LA Times Daily 13 Mar 2019
Writer of a book
Garcia Marquez, for one, nevertheless bathed in aura endlessly
One writing to the French thunder god The Sun Two Speed 02 Feb 2019
Character builder?
Two lots of gold rings extremely tough for creator
The powers that be dropped it with unknown writer
Name on a spine USA Today 04 May 2018
Joyce, for one, is responsible for 18 across Irish Times Crosaire 20 Apr 2018
Mailer, for one LA Times Daily 10 Mar 2018
Mailer, for one The Washington Post 10 Mar 2018
Orwell or Wells New York Times 27 Feb 2018
Name on a spine The Washington Post 25 Feb 2018
Name on a spine LA Times Daily 25 Feb 2018
Joyce, for example, has car in US and runs over husband The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Feb 2018
Name on a spine
Name on a spine
Orwell or Wells
Often-doubled cry at a play New York Times 25 Jun 2017
Golden god for writer
Originator The Guardian Speedy 22 Apr 2017
Figure at a book signing USA Today 11 Mar 2017
Name on a book jacket Universal 26 Jan 2017
Swift or Crane Wall Street Journal 24 Jan 2017
Name on a book jacket
Often-doubled cry at a play
A universal god or creator The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Nov 2016
Removing clothes, man cuts short writer
Call after close of play, at hour to be arranged The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Aug 2016
With 24-Across, 1962 P. G. Wodehouse book New York Times 09 Aug 2016
With 26-Across, 1982 Al Pacino film New York Times 09 Aug 2016
Spine handle Wall Street Journal 25 Jun 2016
Source gold after gold filling falls out of tooth The Guardian Cryptic 15 Apr 2016
Source gold after gold filling falls out of tooth
Someone who originates, causes or initiates something The Guardian Speedy 28 Feb 2016
With 26-Across, 1982 Al Pacino film
With 24-Across, 1962 P. G. Wodehouse book
Stephen King or Ellery Queen
A superior god seen as creator
Writer Thoreau revised with no end of patience The Telegraph Cryptic 19 Jul 2015
Literary creator of a universal god? The Times Cryptic 30 Mar 2015
Name on the cover Universal 28 Feb 2015
Puts pen to paper in chapter house without speech Irish Times Crosaire 18 Feb 2015
Name on the cover
Writer absorbed in taut horror movie
Novel creator
Write
Tan or Brown
Name on a spine
Manuscript producer
Name on a spine
Touring pro, perhaps
Appreciative cry after a play
One with a byline
Name on the cover
Appreciative cry after a play
Mailer or Miller
Name on the cover
Creator
Creator
Mailer or Miller
Spine line
Novelist, say, taking gold for 'God'
Card catalog datum
Talk show guest, often
J.K. Rowling, for one
Name included with any 43-Down
Novelist
Lamb or Rice
Writer
Writer
J.K. Rowling, for one
Write
J.K. Rowling, for one
Spine line
Name on a spine
Anonymous one, sometimes
Novelist, e.g.
Bookmaker?
Write
Novelist
Spine line
Audience cry
Bacon or Lamb
Playwright, e.g.
Mailer, for one
One who decides on sentences?
J.K. Rowling, for one
Pope or King
Pope or King
Name on a jacket
Writer
Lamb or Bacon
Lamb or Bacon
Creative type
Manuscript producer
Card-catalogue datum
Novel producer
Twain for one
Create
Pen
Wolfe or Woolf
London or Manchester, e.g.
Creator
Glasgow or London
King or Sheldon
Curtain call cry
Harold Robbins or Robin Cook
Opening-night call
Budd Schulberg, for instance.
One who works with a lot of characters
Curtain-call cry.
First-nighter's cry.
Curtain call on a first night.
Creator.
Curtain call cry.
Curtain-call figure.
Storyteller
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