Literary detective Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Literary detective featured in Times Concise puzzle on December 26, 2025. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 6 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is HOLMES.

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% HOLMES Literary detective (6) The Times Concise Dec 26, 2025
31% NERO Literary detective Wolfe (4) LA Times Daily Mar 11, 2025
31% SAM Literary detective Spade (3) USA Today Mar 22, 2018
31% DREW Literary detective Nancy (4)
31% PHILO ___ Vance, literary detective (5)
28% SHERLOCKHOLMES Literary detective in "A Study in Scarlet" (14)
25% DER Inspector Van _____ Valk (literary detective) (3)
21% POIROT Literary detective whose final case is in 1975's "Curtain" (6) New York Times Oct 2, 2025
21% ANNCLEEVES Creator of the literary detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez (10) The Times Specialist Sunday Jul 28, 2019
18% PURPLE Turned up literary detective (not the old woman) — such writing is over the top (6) The Guardian Cryptic Feb 16, 2023

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