The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word IVES
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More clues leading to the result IVES
- American composer is losing pounds
- Composer‘s endless component of salad
- Composer is left out
- American who scored heroin leaves busy places
- Composer of five symphonies
- Composer raised in US evidently
- US composer into percussive sounds
- Numbers needing no introduction for US composer
- One has succeeded as an American composer
- One’s South American staff writer
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