| JGFARRELL | Novelist best known for his Empire Trilogy, two novels of which were awarded Booker Prizes (1,1,7) |
| JMCOETZEE | South African winner of two Booker prizes |
| FARRELL | J. G. -; author who wrote the Empire Trilogy comprising Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip (7) |
| HESSE | The first novel of which German Swiss writer and Nobel laureate was Peter Camenzind (1904) |
| PETER | (& 24-down) Australian novelist to win two Booker Prizes (5,5) |
| HUGOWEAVING | V for Vendetta actor who played AI program Agent Smith in the 1999-2003 Matrix trilogy: 2 wds. |
| VIGGOMORTENSEN | The Lord of the Rings actor who bought three horses that appeared in the film trilogy: 2 wds. |
| SAMRAIMI | Director of the "Evil Dead" trilogy (2 wds.) |
| CAMBRIDGE | University at which the first wooden spoons as “booby prizes” were awarded |
| AGNESGREY | First of the two novels by English author Anne Bronte (1847), whose heroine marries curate Edward Weston (5,4) |
| EDWARDIAN | The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in this pre-WWI period, the ... era |
| PEKINGMAN | Early type of man, Homo erectus, remains of which were found in a cave near Beijing, China in 1927 (6,3) |
| AINSWORTH | William Harrison ___, English historical novelist best known for Rookwood, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character |
| MARYHELEN | *Novelist Stefaniak or crime-solving nun in the novels of Sister Carol Anne O'Marie |
| GARGANTUA | Father of Pantagruel in the novels of 16th-century French author Francois Rabelais (9) |
| THACKERAY | William Makepeace ___, English novelist best known for Vanity Fair |
| JADIS | Antagonist of two novels in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series, known as the White Witch (5) |
| VITAMIN | Any of various organic compounds, for the discovery of which Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Christiaan Eijkman were awarded a Nobel Prize in 1929 (7) |
| LANDSAT | The byname of Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), any of a series of uncrewed U.S. scientific satellites, the first of which were launched in 1972, 1975, and 1978 to collect information about |
| TSELIOT | High-modernist poet with three Tony awards, two of which were for "Cats" |
