Answer: PROSE
PROSE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 95 times.
Referring Clues:
- Text
 - It's unmetered
 - Simple writing
 - Plain speaking
 - "Purple" writing
 - Nonpoetic writing
 - Plain writing
 - Ordinary writing
 - Novel or essay
 - Writing
 - An essayist's work is in it
 - Plain English
 - Novel content
 - Everyday speech
 - Purple stuff, perhaps
 - Regular writing
 - Verse's converse
 - Ordinary language form
 - Genre of novels and essays
 - It may be purple
 - Verse inverse?
 - Essay, say
 - It's "architecture, not interior decoration": Hemingway
 - Unlike most of Shakespeare
 - Ordinary language
 - It's no verse
 - Standard paragraphs
 - Plain talk
 - Ordinary talk
 - London lines
 - Not poetry
 - Without rhyme, but with reason
 - Form of writing
 - Purple ___ (flowery writing)
 - Writing lacking meter
 - Everyday language
 - Twain lines
 - Rhyme-free writing
 - Matter-of-fact writing
 - Plain talk
 - Ordinary lines
 - Most writing
 - Everyday writing
 - Poetry's opposite
 - Poetry's antithesis
 - Much writing
 - Non-verse writing
 - Fiction, e.g.
 - Fiction, e.g.
 - Novel language?
 - Best seller, usually
 - Best-seller,usually
 - Bestseller usually
 - Conversational literature
 - Novel writing, e.g.
 - Commonplace writing
 - The written word
 - Typical writing
 - It couldn't be verse
 - Writing form
 - Literature
 - Plain-old paragraph
 - Poetry's counterpart
 - Novelist's output
 - Poetry
 - Writing style
 - "Always be a poet, even in ___": Baudelaire
 - Essay makeup
 - Narrative writing
 - Novel writing
 - Language of a novel
 - Stories
 - Standard speaking
 - Essayist's writing
 - Flowery writing
 - Unmetered writing
 - Henry James's forte
 - Non-poetry
 - Writing that isn't poetry
 - It isn't poetry
 - Verse alternative
 - Writing in biographies
 - It's not poetry
 - Plain text
 - It's not good if it's purple
 - Novel makeup
 - Novel filler
 - Counterpart of poetry
 - Essay writing, e.g.
 - "Purple" stuff
 - Novelist's writhing
 - Essay text
 - Verse inverse
 - Writing that's not poetic
 - Writing without verse
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 14, 2025
 - USA Today - September 09, 2025
 - New York Times - April 07, 2025
 - New York Times - March 27, 2025
 - USA Today - February 19, 2025
 - LA Times - February 18, 2025
 - LA Times - October 21, 2024
 - LA Times - October 12, 2024
 - LA Times - September 20, 2024
 - LA Times - June 22, 2024
 - USA Today - June 20, 2024
 - New York Times - May 13, 2024
 - LA Times - April 14, 2024
 - LA Times - January 03, 2024
 - LA Times - October 25, 2023
 - New York Times - May 26, 2023
 - USA Today - April 27, 2023
 - New York Times - September 16, 2022
 - USA Today - August 25, 2022
 - New York Times - December 31, 2021
 
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