Author named in expression of surprise Crossword Clue

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Author named in expression of surprise Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a word used in exclamations of confusion
2. English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

EXPRESSION (noun)
1. a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
2. the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions
AUTHOR (noun)
1. someone who originates or causes or initiates something
2. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
AUTHOR (verb)
1. be the author of

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More The Guardian Cryptic Crossword (6/4/2026) Answers

Across

9. Old fighter happy I reversed schedule

10. The writer’s penning line as children’s author

11. Blind faith in a male deity? Just the opposite

12. Trying afresh, male gets absorbed in parental task

13. Prior to game of cards, a cut

17. Republican in charge producing offensive poster

18. Backed team’s long shot

19. Celia’s name-change?

21. Lewis, Oxford don and writer

23. Befuddled brain taking in article after article from part of Asia

24. Short piece of text in suitable American structure

26. Squeeze using spades in dummy

28. Robust half of comic duo

29. Test data? Assesses excessively

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Down

1. Old or modern artist endlessly showing up

2. Kind of court that proceeds by leaps and bounds

3. Italian playwright’s storyline mostly about Ireland, oddly

4. Serious English or Irish novelist

5. Dorothy’s largely wrong steer, as usual

6. Novel part of proof putting off learner at first

7. A large tree or plant

8. Floating object waterbird’s almost turned over

13. Like part of ancient Greece that’s accessible by flights?

15. People as created initially in books

16. Author’s a mug, used to drink a lot

18. Process yielding mixed results is what you seek

20. Launch minimal review of restaurant

22. Write for newspaper about position of left wing

23. English author sharing pronouncement with state capital

24. A pale cast? Just the opposite

25. Fish farm, so to speak

27. Tragic heroine, as Dickinson, say, quaintly concludes

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