"The Time Machine" author (5)

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wells

'the time machine author' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for wells that I've seen before include "Cathedral city; sci-fi writer" , "H. G. . . . . ., science-fiction writer" , "Novelist and city" , "Sources of water" , "What a boring person might produce" .)

I've seen this clue in the Penny Press.

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