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Crime Writers
This crossword highlights authors celebrated for their contributions to crime fiction.
- Grid
- 13 × 13 Maxi
- Clues
- 62 8 themed
- Average solve
- 11:03 220 solves
- Rating
- 4.6 (7)
- Published
- 1 Jul 2021 Fiction Thursday
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Across
- 1 ___ mater, one's old school or university (4)
- 5 ___ Center, skyscraper in Chicago (3)
- 17 ___ Johansen, crime writer of "Chasing the Night" (4) · THEME
+31 more in the app
Down
- 1 Circuit of a race track (1,3)
- 2 ___ Horne, singer of "Love Me or Leave Me" (4)
- 4 ___ Shreve, crime writer who wrote "The Weight of Water" (5) · THEME
+25 more in the app
Did you know?
"The Rector of Vilebye" by Steen Steensen is the earliest known crime novel.
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