| REIVERS | "The ...", William Faulkner novel featuring the characters Lucius Priest and Boon Hogganbeck (7) |
| LIGHTINAUGUST | William Faulkner novel featuring Lena Grove's search for Lucas Burch (5,2,6) |
| ENGLAND | And 21 1935 Graham Greene novel featuring the characters Anthony and Kate Farrant (7,4,2) |
| PILCHER | Cornish-born author who wrote for Mills and Boon as "Jane Fraser" before writing, under her own name, novels including The End of Summer and her popular The Shell Seekers (7) |
| REBECCA | Gothic novel featuring the characters Mrs Danvers and Maxim de Winter (7) |
| ADAMSEL | 1919 P G Wodehouse novel featuring the characters Maud Marsh and George Bevan (1,6,2,8) |
| ROMANCE | Genre published by Mills & Boon; or, linked with True, a Tarantino film (7) |
| FURY | The Sound and the ___ (William Faulkner novel) |
| ABSALOM | When repeated, a Faulkner novel |
| SOUNDANDTHEFURY | With "The," 1929 William Faulkner novel whose title comes from "Macbeth" |
| OLEMISS | Alma mater of Eli Manning and William Faulkner |
| THETOWN | 1957 novel by William Faulkner (3,4) |
| INTRUDER | "_ in the Dust" (William Faulkner novel) (8) |
| PYLON | M-Train band who shares its name with a 1935 William Faulkner novel |
| GODOWNMOSES | William Faulkner novel that examines race relations on a Mississippi plantation across generations: 3 wds. |
| TEMPLEDRAKE | Character in William Faulkner novels "Sanctuary" and "Requiem for a Nun" |
| THEBEAR | William Faulkner novelette |
| ASI | William Faulkner novel ___ Lay Dying: 2 wds. |
| ANUN | "Requiem for ___": William Faulkner novel |
| DYING | As I Lay ___, William Faulkner novel (5) |
