Pulitzer-winning poet Aiken Crossword Clue

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Pulitzer-winning poet Aiken Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

WINNING (adjective)
1. very attractive; capturing interest
2. having won
WINNING (noun)
1. succeeding with great difficulty
PULITZER (noun)
1. United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911)

Hint 3: Anagram

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More NYT Crossword (6/26/2026) Answers

Across

1. Hectic time for JFK

5. Bar of note?

9. Texters Hang on a sec

12. Tightfisted sort

14. Took an Uber, say

15. Top banana

16. Biggest restaurant size that nevertheless is often topped?

19. Logic gate that is only on when neither input is

20. Like many films in teaser trailers

21. Spanish "both"

23. Top banana, for short

24. Ocean-mapping instruments

25. Upper limit that cannot be exceeded

29. Torment

30. Symbol in the Kentucky Derby logo

31. Jazz singer Anita

33. Holders of nets

34. Schlepped

35. SCOTUS head count

36. "Got it"

37. Those for

38. Sing like Sinatra

39. Mickey Mouse

41. Jewelry fasteners

42. ___ will

43. Slangy response to a knock at the door

44. Onetime rap group whose initials spell out a synonym for "Jump Around," appropriately

49. Unresponsive, maybe, for short

51. Current affairs

53. Polite request

54. Public transport option

55. Popular toys, in a plural form officially discouraged by their maker

56. ___ admin (I.T. role)

57. "Look, here's the deal …"

58. Refuses to

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Down

1. Group of mutants

2. Expert on cosmos?

3. Expert on the cosmos

4. To be, in Tijuana

5. Goals for those in a rush, informally

6. Golf great McIlroy

7. Unlikely scenarios, in techspeak

8. Vacillated

9. Wrong

10. Level

11. Two-pronged fastener

13. Was used up

15. Stan's workplace on "American Dad!," for short

17. Places to go in the U.K.

18. Spur

22. Third-generation Japanese American

24. Draped garment

25. Resting place

27. "Later, dude!"

28. Prison design that allows one guard to keep watch on all the inmates

30. Chess tactic in which the king and queen are attacked simultaneously by a single piece

32. Itches

34. Personalize for

38. Like offspring in a strictly asexual lineage

40. ___ Nam

41. Likely contact point of an uppercut

43. Self-driving car company started by Google

44. Closes (in)

45. Big name in skin care

46. Some missed-exit maneuvers, informally

47. Poli ___ (certain college major, for short)

48. Smartphone predecessors, for short

50. Second: Abbr.

52. Copy cats

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