| REY | "The Bridge of San Luis ___" (Wilder) |
| PERU | Setting of Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" |
| WILDER | Thornton -, author of 1927 novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
| ANDES | "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" setting |
| THORNTONWILDER | American writer famous for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, etc. (8,6) |
| LUIS | Wilder's "The Bridge of San __ Rey" |
| SAN | "The Bridge of ___ Luis Rey" |
| CAMBRIDGE | University city in England, site of the Backs, the Bridge of Sighs and the Mathematical Bridge (9) |
| STARBOARD | In A Night To Remember the sailors on the bridge of the Titanic desperately ordered a change of course to this nautical direction to avoid the iceberg |
| FLEET | Frederick ---, the lookout aboard the Titanic who warned the bridge of the iceberg (5) |
| HOOD | Thomas ___, English poet whose works include 'The Song of the Shirt' (1843) and 'The Bridge of Sighs' (1844) (4) |
| NOSE | Part of the face over which the bridge of a pair of spectacles fits (4) |
| FOREDECK | The area in front of the bridge of a ship (8) |
| PINCENEZ | Eyeglasses held in place by means of a clip over the bridge of the nose (5-3) |
| JUAREZ | City connected to America by the Bridge of the Americas |
| PANAMACANAL | The Bridge of the Americas locale |
| ELPASO | City connected to Ciudad Juarez by the Bridge of the Americas |
| KIRK | Captain on the bridge of the USS Enterprise |
| BRIDGE | 'The --- of San Luis Rey', novel by Thornton Wilder (6) |
| PANAMACITY | National capital that's fittingly home to the Bridge of the Americas |
