Author unknown, for short
The crossword clue "Author unknown, for short" is answered by ANON, a 4-letter entry. Used 30 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ANON
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ANON answer page.
Used 30 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ANON
Every other clue in this collection answered by ANON, most used first.
- Shortly - used 267 times, most recently in 2026
- Soon - used 233 times, most recently in 2026
- Presently - used 165 times, most recently in 2026
- Auth. unknown - used 102 times, most recently in 2025
- By and by - used 87 times, most recently in 2021
- Erelong - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- In a while - used 64 times, most recently in 2021
- Ever and ___ - used 59 times, most recently in 2024
- Soon, poetically - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- In a bit - used 55 times, most recently in 2024
- Unknown author, for short - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Soon, to a bard - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Before long - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Ever's partner - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Later - used 39 times, most recently in 2020
- Shortly, in poems - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Bartlett's abbr. - used 33 times, most recently in 2019
- Prolific auth. - used 31 times, most recently in 2022
- Soon, to Shakespeare - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- At another time - used 29 times, most recently in 2008
- Quote-book abbr. - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Poetic adverb - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- In due time - used 25 times, most recently in 2015
- Shortly, to Shakespeare - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Soon, in verse - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
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- For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
- Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
- "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
- Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
- Author Ferber - EDNA, used 229 times
- Author Wiesel - ELIE, used 213 times
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