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He wrote "The 42-Across"

Last seen in LA Times Daily Crossword August 26, 2019 Answers

The answer you're looking for to the clue "He wrote "The 42-Across"" is most likely POE. This 3-letter answer has a 99% confidence score in our database. The clue was last featured in the LA Times Daily Crossword crossword on August 26, 2019, and we've found 150 possible solutions from various published puzzles.

Answer For He wrote "The 42-Across":

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150 Other Potential Answers

99%
POE
He wrote "The 42-Across"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 26, 2019
50%
LAILA
With 60-Across, undefeated boxer who wrote the cookbook "Food for Life"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 12, 2022
8%
SPAN
Reach across
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 8, 2026
8%
KAY
"Funny Face" actress Thompson who wrote the "Eloise" books
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 5, 2026
8%
SADAT
Anwar who wrote "Revolt on the Nile"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 4, 2026
8%
SHE
"That's all __ wrote"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 29, 2026
8%
FIND
Happen across
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 26, 2026
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SEEM
Come across as
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 12, 2026
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ZED
The last letter, across the pond
Universal Crossword · Mar 23, 2026
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CHAP
Fella, across the pond
Universal Crossword · Mar 3, 2026
8%
ODELL
Scott who wrote "Island of the Blue Dolphins"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 6, 2026
8%
ELIE
Wiesel who wrote "Night" and later became a knight
Universal Crossword · Jan 22, 2026
8%
PAIGE
Satchel who wrote "Pitchin' Man"
Universal Crossword · Jan 2, 2026
8%
SFO
Airport across the bay from OAK
Universal Crossword · Dec 16, 2025
8%
ERMA
Bombeck who wrote "When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time To Go Home"
Universal Crossword · Dec 13, 2025
8%
SPANS
Stretches across
Universal Crossword · Dec 7, 2025
8%
SERIAL
True crime podcast whose stories are split across multiple episodes
Universal Crossword · Oct 19, 2025
8%
SOLOED
Flew like Amelia Earhart did across the Atlantic
Universal Crossword · Oct 13, 2025
8%
DAYLE
Model Haddon who wrote "Ageless Beauty"
Universal Crossword · Oct 5, 2025
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LOO
Head across the pond?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 4, 2025
8%
NELSON
Maggie who wrote "On Freedom"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 4, 2025
8%
SHIRE
County, across the pond
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 27, 2025
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ANKA
Paul who wrote the lyrics to "My Way"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 24, 2025
8%
ELMORE
Leonard who wrote "Get Shorty"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 17, 2025
8%
SAEED
Poet Jones who wrote the memoir "How We Fight for Our Lives"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 13, 2025
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MEET
Come across
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 11, 2025
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SEEMED
Came across as
Universal Crossword · Sep 4, 2025
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EUDORA
Welty who wrote "The Optimist's Daughter"
Universal Crossword · Aug 30, 2025
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TRAVERSE
Go across
Universal Crossword · Aug 24, 2025
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BARHOPPING
Friday night activity, or a hint to a three-letter word spread evenly across five squares in 17-, 23-, 35- or 46-Across
Universal Crossword · Jul 15, 2025
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TAMPAFL
City across the bay from St. Petersburg
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 2, 2025
8%
TARPAULIN
Slow roller across the infield
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 31, 2025
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EMME
Supermodel who wrote the kids book "What Are You Hungry For?"
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 31, 2025
8%
KIESELAYMON
"Long Division" novelist who wrote "Heavy: An American Memoir"
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 24, 2025
8%
LORDE
Audre who wrote "I am a warrior and my poetry is my primary weapon"
Universal Crossword · May 20, 2025
8%
LEVI
Primo who wrote "The Periodic Table"
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 3, 2025
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MOZART
Composer who wrote his first minuet at age five
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 20, 2025
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SAHARADESERT
*It's spread across 11 African nations
Universal Crossword · Apr 15, 2025
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PEARLSBUCK
*Literature Nobelist who wrote "The Good Earth"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 4, 2025
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RUNYON
Damon who wrote the stories adapted as "Guys and Dolls"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 23, 2025
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ADA
Limon who wrote "The End of Poetry"
Universal Crossword · Dec 29, 2024
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NASH
Ogden who wrote "Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker"
Universal Crossword · Dec 26, 2024
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MET
Came across
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 26, 2024
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CANTYOUSEE
"How is my point not getting across?"
Universal Crossword · Dec 17, 2024
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OPENLETTER
MLK wrote one in a Birmingham jail
Universal Crossword · Dec 7, 2024
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JIMMYOYANG
"Silicon Valley" actor who wrote "How To American: An Immigrant's Guide To Disappointing Your Parents" (... letter 6)
Universal Crossword · Nov 8, 2024
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TENETS
Core principles ... and when parsed differently, what you'll find across all of the answers to the starred clues
Universal Crossword · Oct 22, 2024
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ETON
Town across the Thames from Windsor
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 20, 2024
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SORKIN
Aaron who wrote "The Social Network"
Universal Crossword · Oct 1, 2024
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BRIDGED
Reached across
Thomas Joseph Crossword · Sep 30, 2024
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LIPPEDOUT
Rolled across the edge of a golf hole
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 29, 2024
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WADES
Walks across a creek, say
Premier Sunday Crossword · Sep 8, 2024
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FORDED
Waded across
Universal Crossword · Aug 31, 2024
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PENCILED
___ in (wrote down tentatively)
Universal Crossword · Aug 12, 2024
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EULER
Mathematician who wrote the first theorem of graph theory
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 4, 2024
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NAT
Pro across town from a Cap
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 3, 2024
8%
BOUTON
Pitcher Jim who wrote the 1970 memoir "Ball Four"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 17, 2024
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DUBOIS
W.E.B. who wrote "The Souls of Black Folk"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 5, 2024
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DARWISH
Poet Mahmoud who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jul 5, 2024
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CHARYBDIS
Sea creature who lived across the Strait of Messina from Scylla
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 27, 2024
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TONYROBBINS
Motivational speaker who wrote “Unlimited Power” [1960]
Premier Sunday Crossword · Jun 23, 2024
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ELIOT
George who wrote "Silas Marner"
Universal Crossword · Jun 17, 2024
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EPHRON
Nora who wrote, "Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from"
Universal Crossword · Jun 15, 2024
8%
GONEVIRAL
Spread across the internet
Universal Crossword · May 19, 2024
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PETROL
Gas, across the pond
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 5, 2024
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SPANNED
Went across
Premier Sunday Crossword · Apr 28, 2024
8%
AIRKISS
Romantic gesture from across the room, perhaps
Universal Crossword · Apr 6, 2024
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SAMANTHABEE
Comedian who wrote "Cracking Up" and "I Know I Am, but What Are You?"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 16, 2024
8%
SMITH
Singer Patti who wrote the memoir "Just Kids"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 13, 2024
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ANON
"We don't know who wrote this" abbreviation
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 26, 2024
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PAM
Muñoz Ryan who wrote the Newbery Honor Book "Echo"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 24, 2024
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BROKENPROMISE
Unkept vow, or what's split across each set of starred clues' answers
Universal Crossword · Feb 22, 2024
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ERIC
Carle who wrote "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
Universal Crossword · Feb 9, 2024
8%
DEANKOONTZ
Novelist who wrote the "Odd Thomas" thrillers
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 18, 2024
8%
ALPS
Range across eight European countries
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 10, 2024
8%
EGAN
Jennifer who wrote "A Visit From the Goon Squad"
Universal Crossword · Jan 1, 2024
8%
ERIE
Pennsylvania city across from Presque Isle State Park
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 29, 2023
8%
COLINJOST
"SNL" regular who wrote the memoir "A Very Punchable Face"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 21, 2023
8%
SRA
Mme., across the Pyrenees
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 19, 2023
8%
MRS
Mme., across the Channel
Universal Crossword · Dec 11, 2023
8%
PADMA
Lakshmi who wrote the children's book "Tomatoes for Neela"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 10, 2023
8%
RUMI
Persian poet who wrote the "Spiritual Couplets"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 29, 2023
8%
ASHE
Tennis legend who wrote a history of African-American athletes
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 25, 2023
8%
LAILAALI
Retired boxer who wrote the cookbook "Food for Life"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 21, 2023
8%
OMAN
Country across the Arabian Sea from Mumbai
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 13, 2023
8%
PATTI
Rock icon Smith who wrote the memoir "Just Kids"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 8, 2023
8%
SRAS
Mmes., across the Pyrenees
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 2, 2023
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TRANSECTS
Cuts across
Universal Crossword · Oct 29, 2023
8%
CECIL
Poet Day-Lewis who wrote the Nigel Strangeways detective novels as Nicholas Blake
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 29, 2023
8%
JANEGOODALL
Primatologist who wrote "The Chimpanzees of Gombe"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 13, 2023
8%
SLICED
Like the foods split across each pair of starred clues' answers
Universal Crossword · Sep 7, 2023
8%
POTATOCHIP
It's a crisp across the pond
Universal Crossword · Aug 23, 2023
8%
NOSRAT
Chef Samin who wrote the cookbook "Salt Fat Acid Heat"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 28, 2023
8%
CIAO
"Adieu," across the Alps
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 12, 2023
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ELLA
Her, across the Rio Grande
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 24, 2023
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HERR
Monsieur, across the Rhine
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 24, 2023
8%
POOLNOODLE
Dog relaxing across a foam flotation device?
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 10, 2023
8%
NUTCRACKERS
Toys that are also tools, and a hint to the words split across the sets of asterisked clues' answers
Universal Crossword · May 9, 2023
8%
SCHUMER
Comedian Amy who wrote "The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo"
Universal Crossword · Apr 24, 2023
8%
ARI
Radio host Shapiro who wrote "The Best Strangers in the World"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 21, 2023
8%
ALGORE
Vice president who wrote "An Inconvenient Truth"
Universal Crossword · Apr 11, 2023
8%
DEMILLE
Choreographer Agnes who wrote a biography of Martha Graham
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 24, 2023
8%
RENAULT
Mary who wrote “The Persian Boy”
Thomas Joseph Crossword · Mar 8, 2023
8%
SHELLEY
Mary who wrote “Frankenstein”
Thomas Joseph Crossword · Mar 8, 2023
8%
TINA
Fey who wrote "Bossypants"
Universal Crossword · Mar 7, 2023
8%
TYSON
Cicely who wrote the 2021 memoir "Just As I Am"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 26, 2023
8%
DEFOE
Author who wrote on Friday?
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 9, 2023
8%
BRONTE
She wrote “Jane Eyre”
Premier Sunday Crossword · Feb 5, 2023
8%
PLATH
Poet who wrote, "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 1, 2023
8%
PELE
Athlete who wrote the memoir "My Life and the Beautiful Game"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 31, 2022
8%
GEENADAVIS
Actress who wrote the 2022 memoir "Dying of Politeness"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 28, 2022
8%
IRMA
Rombauer who wrote "The Joy of Cooking"
Universal Crossword · Dec 21, 2022
8%
LENIN
He wrote "The State and Revolution" in 1917
Universal Crossword · Dec 16, 2022
8%
WAVEHELLO
Greet from across the street, say
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 7, 2022
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CALAIS
French city across from Dover
Universal Crossword · Nov 21, 2022
8%
BECHDEL
Alison who wrote the graphic memoir "The Secret to Superhuman Strength"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 15, 2022
8%
SPLITENDS
Hair frustrations, or what the words broken across the starred clues' answers are?
Universal Crossword · Nov 7, 2022
8%
CARLI
Soccer great Lloyd who wrote the memoir "When Nobody Was Watching"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Nov 4, 2022
8%
OTIS
Redding who wrote "Respect"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Oct 22, 2022
8%
EMILY
Dickinson who wrote "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
Universal Crossword · Oct 11, 2022
8%
GOGOL
Nikolai who wrote "The Overcoat"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 18, 2022
8%
YALTA
"Big Three" summit site where Chekhov wrote "Three Sisters"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 3, 2022
8%
CLARA
Barton who wrote "A Story of the Red Cross"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 16, 2022
8%
PJOROURKE
*Political satirist who wrote "Holidays in Hell"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Aug 3, 2022
8%
OMARKHAYYAM
Polymath who wrote "The Rubaiyat"
Universal Crossword · Jul 16, 2022
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TRANSECT
Cut across
Eugene Sheffer Crossword · Jul 6, 2022
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ODE
Keats wrote one to autumn
Universal Crossword · Jun 25, 2022
8%
SONTAG
Susan who wrote, "The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth"
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 21, 2022
8%
EAU
Agua, across the Pyrenees
Universal Crossword · May 13, 2022
8%
TAMPA
City across from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge
LA Times Daily Crossword · May 7, 2022
8%
EARHART
Amelia who flew across the Atlantic
Universal Crossword · Apr 27, 2022
8%
PPS
Second addendum to a letter ... and a hint to 18-, 34-, 44- and 62-across
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 11, 2022
8%
SUE
Grafton who wrote 25 "Alphabet Mystery" books
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 16, 2022
8%
ODES
Garc’a Lorca wrote them to Whitman and Dal’
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 25, 2022
8%
ORAN
City across the Mediterranean from Cartagena
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 20, 2022
8%
SANDPITS
Kids' play places, across the pond
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 20, 2022
8%
CONVEY
Get across
Thomas Joseph Crossword · Feb 11, 2022
8%
ELISE
Ludwig wrote fŸr her
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 10, 2022
8%
ONEBC
When Ovid wrote “Ars Amatoria”
Thomas Joseph Crossword · Feb 9, 2022
8%
NIAGARA
Falls across a border?
Universal Crossword · Jan 30, 2022
8%
OPERA
Beethoven wrote just one
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 28, 2022
8%
CANTATA
Bach wrote one about coffee
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 6, 2022
8%
ETUDE
Chopin wrote a "Revolutionary" one
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 12, 2021
1%
VITT
Economist who co-wrote "Freakonomics"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Apr 24, 2026
1%
TEN
Full complement of players, in men's lacrosse
LA Times Daily Crossword · Sep 9, 2024
1%
ATTACK
Players between midfield and defense in lacrosse
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jan 14, 2024
1%
ONEONONEDEFENSE
Lacrosse strategy
LA Times Daily Crossword · Mar 18, 2023
1%
SIA
One-named singer who co-wrote Rihanna's "Diamonds"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Dec 10, 2022
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NETS
Lacrosse targets
LA Times Daily Crossword · Jun 27, 2022
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ETTA
James who co-wrote and sang "I'd Rather Go Blind"
LA Times Daily Crossword · Feb 20, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many possible solutions does "He wrote "The 42-Across"" have?
We found 1 exact solution and 150 total potential answers including similar clues. The most likely answer is POE (3 letters).
What is the best answer for "He wrote "The 42-Across""?
The best answer for "He wrote "The 42-Across"" is POE with 3 letters. This answer has a 99% confidence rating based on our database of crossword solutions.
Where has "He wrote "The 42-Across"" been used as a crossword clue?
This clue has appeared 1 time in our database. It has been featured in LA Times Daily Crossword. It was last seen in the LA Times Daily Crossword on August 26, 2019.
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