The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TROLLOPE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result TROLLOPE
- Writer takes drink, having trapped wind
- Writer dipping bread in booze
- Loose woman beginning to exasperate novelist
- Register held by leading English novelist
- Author dunking bread in drink
- Anthony’s floozy on the phone
- Either of two writers to be annoying online, unblocked for the most part
- Novelist Tom Wolfe’s last letter
- Writer is to wallow in drink
- Wheel in drink for a writer
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