The Clue
"Alistair ___ America" (1973 book) (6 letter answer)
The Answer
COOKES
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Notes
The answer COOKES is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
COOKE as a noun:
1. (Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Alfred Alistair Cooke) = United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
2. (Cooke, Jay Cooke) = United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)
COOK as a verb:
1. prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
2. (cook, fix, ready, make, prepare) = prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
3. transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
4. transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
5. (fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent) = fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"