The Clue
Penned (5 letter answer)
The Answer
WROTE
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Notes
The answer WROTE is common and appears about once every 350 puzzles.
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Took pen in hand
What Trollope did
E-mailed, e.g.
Composed a billet-doux
Emulated Rice or Oates
Scribbled, say
Sand did this
Dropped a line
Set down
Dashed off
Put pen to paper
Composed, as an email
Inscribed
Drafted
Authored
Corresponded
Indited
Composed
Definition
WRITE as a verb:
1. (write, compose, pen, indite) = produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
2. communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"
3. (publish, write) = have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books during her long career"
4. (write, drop a line) = communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!"
5. communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon"
6. (compose, write) = write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
7. mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
8. record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
9. (spell, write) = write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
10. create code, write a computer program; "She writes code faster than anybody else"