Author F. __ Fitzgerald (5)

I believe the answer is:

scott

(Other definitions for scott that I've seen before include "old novelist" , "Ivanhoe author" , "Sir Walter --, writer" , "British Antarctic explorer, died 1912" , "Sir Peter -----, ornithologist son of a great explorer" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday.

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