The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word MARLOWE
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More clues leading to the result MARLOWE
- Unpleasant experience, accommodating gloomy playwright
- Tough guy who investigated more lawbreaking
- Kit’s tungsten withdrawn, following cut by Spain
- Kit bag’s contents held by Dad’s Army‘s Arthur
- Thames town finishes the playwright
- Poet and playwright heard in town by Thames
- Dramatist from riverside town meets gruesome ending
- Hurt, depressed English dramatist
- New moral we found in old writer
- Fictional detective depressed when carried by horse
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