The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DICKENS
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More clues leading to the result DICKENS
- Returning hero knows Scots writer
- Deuce shuffled in decks
- Devoid of energy, heartily sickened author
- Author‘s daughter becomes ill, not son
- Devil put neck out in hell
- Charles or Monica down to replace children in layers
- Sweet man spotted with some camera, wiping face
- Studies should encompass one case of cook becoming author
- Detective being created by author
- A devil of a writer
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What does DICKENS mean?
DICKENS noun- The devil.
- In the phrase the dickens (Used as an intensifier).
- A disturbance or row.