Poet and novelist whose father was a detective Crossword Clue

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% CHESTERTON Poet and novelist whose father was a detective (10)
6% ELIOT Poet whose friends called him "Tom" (5) Newsday Sep 4, 2025
5% CASE Job for a detective (4) Commuter Oct 17, 2025
5% HESSE "Siddhartha" novelist (5) LA Times Daily Oct 16, 2025
5% ABBOT Religious title whose name comes from the Hebrew for "father" (5) New York Times Oct 12, 2025
5% TONI Novelist Morrison (4) Wall Street Journal Oct 9, 2025
5% ELLEN Novelist Raskin (5) LA Times Daily Oct 4, 2025
5% DAD Father (3) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Oct 2, 2025
5% POIROT Literary detective whose final case is in 1975's "Curtain" (6) New York Times Oct 2, 2025
5% ALIBI Detective story? (5) LA Times Daily Oct 1, 2025
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