Answer:

realist

Answer	Crossword Clue
REALIST	One who can face facts
REALIST	Dreamer's opposite
REALIST	Idealist's opposite

REALIST	Pragmatic person
REALIST	Down-to-earth type
REALIST	Grounded one
REALIST	One who faces the facts
REALIST	Pragmatist
REALIST	Pragmatic one
REALIST	Romantic's counterpart
REALIST	One who's pragmatic about preferred party guests (7)

REALIST	Anti-theorist.
REALIST	Person with "feet on the ground."
REALIST	Almost any modern novelist.
REALIST	Not a dreamer.
REALIST	Twain or Whitman.
REALIST	Type of artist or writer.
REALIST	Adherent to truth of detail.
REALIST	John Steinbeck, for instance.

REALIST	Practical man.
REALIST	Faulkner, for example.
REALIST	Writer like Steinbeck.
REALIST	One with no fancies.
REALIST	Type of writer.
REALIST	Writer like Hemingway.
REALIST	Man with both feet on the ground.
REALIST	Down-to-earth one.

REALIST	Philosopher of a sort.
REALIST	Dreamer's opposite.
REALIST	Forceful writer.
REALIST	Down-to-earth one
REALIST	Down-to-earth person
REALIST	Flaubert or Zola
REALIST	He won't kid himself
REALIST	Objective one

REALIST	Fact facer
REALIST	The facts guide his acts
REALIST	Twain or Whitman
REALIST	Practical person
REALIST	No dreamer