The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DEFOE
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More clues leading to the result DEFOE
- One who wrote in defence of editorial sent up
- Author starts to defend antagonist
- Author due to lose heart over enemy
- Writer offering brill Old English
- Novelist, certainly English
- Writer held up by the Duke of Edinburgh
- He wrote about Flanders, about retreating in river
- He wrote in edge of notes off and on
- Daniel‘s unquestionably colloquial Old English
- Author, in awe of editor, held back
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