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Iconic Heroines
This puzzle honors fictional women whose stories have shaped literary history.
- Grid
- 13 × 13 Maxi
- Clues
- 58 8 themed
- Average solve
- 16:27 68 solves
- Rating
- 4.0 (2)
- Published
- 8 Oct 2026 Fiction Thursday
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Across
- 1 Chair (4)
- 5 ___ Anderson, football player (5)
- 10 ___ Golightly, character in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote (5) · THEME
+26 more in the app
Down
- 1 Fourteen-line poetic form (6)
- 2 "The Book of ___," movie starring Denzel Washington (3)
- 5 Tragic heroine in "Hamlet" (7) · THEME
+26 more in the app
Did you know?
Jo March from "Little Women" was modeled on Louisa May Alcott: she’s ambitious and becomes a writer, reflecting Alcott’s own struggle to be taken seriously as a professional woman.
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