| FAUN | "The Marble ___" (Hawthorne novel) |
| NATHANIEL | _ Hawthorne, author who wrote the 1860 novel The Scarlet Letter (9) |
| SCARLET | "The ___", Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featuring the character Hester Prynne (7,6) |
| LETTER | "The ---", Nathaniel Hawthorne novel featuring the character Hester Prynne (7,6) (see 11D) |
| HESTERPRYNNE | Protagonist of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter (6,6) |
| MARBLEFAUN | Hawthorne novel, with "The" |
| ROME | The colonnade in the Marble Hall of Holkham Hall was copied from that of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in ... (4) |
| HAWTHORNE | Author of the novels The Marble Faun and The Scarlet Letter (9,9) |
| GALE | __ Hawthorne, Liam Hemsworth's role in "The Hunger Games" |
| SCARLETLETTER | The -, Nathaniel Hawthorne novel about a disgraced woman (7,6) |
| REDA | Colored letter in a Hawthorne novel |
| THEMARBLEFAUN | Hawthorne novel |
| THESCARLETLETTER | Nathaniel Hawthorne novel (3,7,6) |
| LETTERA | Scarlet stigma in a Hawthorne novel |
| HEATHROW | Noodlehead left Hawthorne novel in airport (8) |
| CARRARA | City that was the source of the marble for Michelangelo's "David" |
| AGRA | Indian city that contains the marble mausoleum the Taj Mahal (4) |
| ELGIN | Greek sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens that now reside in The British Museum in London, the ... Marbles |
| TAWNY | Behind the marble facade is city brownish? (5) |
| ONASLAB | How the marble installer liked his bacon served? |
