The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SARTRE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result SARTRE
- Reject a lot of rubbish about writer and philosopher
- Somewhat pert rascal upset philosopher
- Writer’s skill showcased in series regularly
- Philosopher right to stop one abandoning use of irony
- Special skill concerning French thinker
- Arrest criminal John-Paul!
- Jean-Paul‘s wrongful arrest
- Fiddle string: rare device for writer
- Rarest sort of philosopher
- Wrongly arrest existentialist
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