The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word RABELAIS
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More clues leading to the result RABELAIS
- Overturning beer ban, is a French writer
- Writer upset one drink at pub, then second
- Bawdy author‘s first mob, so to speak
- Artist is able in translation to deliver French writer
- Bartok’s name takes place behind painter and earthy writer
- Satirist, a Bel Air comic, on second
- Writer and artist is entertaining Adam’s lad
- French writer is after beer and tavern
- Satirist, a sir able to be funny
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