| FANON | "Black Skin, White Masks" author Frantz |
| DUMAS | "Man in the Iron Mask" author |
| DOMINOES | Pipped playing pieces named for their imagined resemblance to black cloaks when contrasted with white masks (8) |
| TANGO | Dance that makes one's skin white again? (5) |
| BRINDLED | Brown, with another colour, Black skin was preeminent |
| AVOCADOPEAR | Fruit with green-black skin and yellowish flesh (7,4) |
| GODHELPTHECHILD | Toni Morrison novel featuring a girl with "blue-black" skin |
| ODE | "___ to Black Skin" (Ashanti Anderson poem) |
| PHANTOM | Iconic Broadway role with a white mask |
| AVOCADO | Pear-shaped tropical fruit with green/black skin and large seed (7) |
| ADRIENNE | Amber in The Bold & the Beautiful, ... Frantz (8) |
| THEWRETCHEDOF | Classic text by Frantz Fanon (3,8,2,3,5) |
| THEEARTH | Classic text by Frantz Fanon (3,8,2,3,5) |
| MICHAEL | First name of horror movie character who wears a white mask and a jumpsuit (7) |
| WEALTH | "___ is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery" (Frantz Fanon) |
| KLUXKLAN | Secret society best known for advocating white supremacy and hiding behind conic masks and white rob |
| RACCOONS | Animals with black masks |
| ENSOR | "Scandalized Masks" painter, 1883 |
| DOMINOS | Ball masks |
| NIGHTWARES | Down pillows, sleep masks, etc.? |
