The crossword solution for the term 'END OF A CLASSIC PALINDROME' is ELBA, a four-letter word. ELBA is an island off the coast of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. It is best known as the place where Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled in 1814. The island's name is also the end of a classic palindrome, 'Able was I ere I saw Elba'. This palindrome was first recorded in 1848 by English writer Charles Dickens.