The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word HISTORIAN
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More clues leading to the result HISTORIAN
- Such as Ban Zhao is to start to record what’s current in her dynasty
- Scholar may disappear into thin air: so?
- Hard one to crack so ran it past expert
- Adapted to an Irish Herodotus
- To an Irish engineer, it’s academic
- Adapting to an Irish Herodotus?
- Past master?
- The man’s man full of perverse rubbish? One sort of academic
- That fellow’s knocked back moonshine with Scotsman, old story teller
- One’s contribution to knowledge is past understanding
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What does HISTORIAN mean?
HISTORIAN noun- A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
- One who studies or researches history.
- One who recounts their own medical history.