The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ISHERWOOD
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More clues leading to the result ISHERWOOD
- Lives next to club owned by female author
- “Cameraman” is to go courting in lady’s department
- Author one right to pursue love in hut
- One’s golf club entertaining that female novelist
- Independent outlaws’ domain for novelist
- English novelist lives with that woman? Hazel possibly
- Novelist getting hint of damages after notable novel is taken into Irish court
- Is golf club entertaining that female novelist?
- One Nottingham Forest playmaker of old
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The straight part
We know that "novelist" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case novelist = isherwood.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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