| NASHE | Elizabethan pamphleteer and dramatist who wrote the picaresque novel The Unfortunate Traveller (5) |
| LESAGE | French novelist and dramatist who wrote the picaresque novel Gil Blas (6) |
| DEFOE | Apparently eliminate opponents of pamphleteer and novelist |
| THOMASPAINE | British-born pamphleteer and revolutionary who wrote The Rights Of Man (6,5) |
| ELIOT | T. S. -; poet and dramatist who wrote the verse plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party (5) |
| YEATS | Irish poet and dramatist who wrote of aging in The Tower (5) |
| AUDEN | W. H. -; poet and dramatist who wrote three plays with Christopher Isherwood including The Ascent of F6 (5) |
| ROGUE | Picaresque novel's hero |
| ALAINRENELESAGE | 18th-century French writer of the play Turcaret and the picaresque novel Gil Blas |
| GLOAT | Rub it in when the unfortunate galoot loses the initial outing (5) |
| APULEIUS | Roman writer of the 2nd century AD best known for the picaresque novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass (8) |
| NOVEL | Genre of fiction with types or styles including epistolary, historical, picaresque, realist and romantic (5) |
| MERCY | Compassion for the unfortunate (5) |
| THOMASNASHE | Elizabethan author whose best-known work is "The Unfortunate Traveller" |
| SMOLLETT | Tobias ___, author of the picaresque satires Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle |
| IVANTURGENEV | 19th Century Russian novelist and dramatist who wrote the play A Month In The Country (4,8) |
| VANBRUGH | John -; architect and dramatist who wrote The Provoked Wife and designed Blenheim Palace with Nicholas Hawksmoor (8) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ---, 19th Century Russian novelist and dramatist who wrote the play A Month In The Country (8) |
| JEANGENET | French novelist and dramatist who wrote about the criminal underworld (4,5) |
| TOMJONES | Short title of a 1749 picaresque novel by Henry Fielding (3,5) |
