"Spoon River Anthology" poet Edgar Lee __

The answer to “"Spoon River Anthology" poet Edgar Lee __” in the LA Times crossword is MASTERS — a 7-letter word. It most recently appeared in the LA Times crossword on July 29, 2026, a Wednesday puzzle, at 48-Across. Below you'll find why that fill fits, every other answer we've recorded for this clue, and links into the puzzle it came from.

“"Spoon River Anthology" poet Edgar Lee __” answer

MASTERS (7 letters)

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Why the answer is MASTERS

He wrote the famed collection of epitaph-like poems about a tiny town’s buried secrets 📚

What does MASTERS mean?

Reading the plain dictionary sense of MASTERS is often the fastest way to see why it answers this clue.

When else has “"Spoon River Anthology" poet Edgar Lee __” appeared?

LA Times reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up, and what the answer was each time — handy when you're checking whether today's fill is the only one.

July 29, 2026 (most recent) → MASTERS. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

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