The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SCOTT
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More clues leading to the result SCOTT
- Explorer lodging in this cottage
- Second time in bed for explorer
- Explorer very dry, having packed cape
- Explorer specifically to climb side of Everest
- Explorer beginning to suffer with cold, excessively
- Author in second chapter exaggerated
- Time to leave second home for one wanting to explore?
- 13 author – that’s Oscar, essentially bitter
- Devastated outcasts, left USA with a famous slave
- Explorer’s bed in the way
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