Enormous number one zero short for writer (5)

Guardian Cryptic #29712 | 21 Across | 2025-06-04
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Nikolai Gogol is the writer [wiki] a G[ O ]OGOL is ten to the power of one hundred i.e. an "Enormous number", with an O i.e. "one zero" removed

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