Surname of the family at the heart of William Faulkner's 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury

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COMPSON

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The clue “Surname of the family at the heart of William Faulkner's 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury” has appeared 1 times in our database with 1 different answers, so count the squares in your grid and check the crossings before you commit. Most recently it ran in the The Independent crossword on March 7, 2026, where the answer was COMPSON.

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