| VERNE | "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" writer |
| NEMO | Captain of the Nautilus in the Jules Verne fantasy, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| JULES | Author famous for Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, etc. (5,5) |
| TAHITI | Island called the "queen of the Pacific" in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" |
| HEMINGWAY | 'The Old Man and the Sea' writer |
| NAUTILUS | Name of Captain Nemo's submarine in Jules Verne's adventure novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island (8) |
| SUBMARINES | Inventions that inspired the sci-fi novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne |
| JULESVERNE | French author whose novels include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty |
| GIANTSQUID | Creature that attacked the Nautilus in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" |
| NED | "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" character Land |
| IRIS | One of the forenames of The Sea, the Sea author Dame Murdoch (4) |
| IRISMURDOCH | "The Sea, The Sea" author (4,7) |
| SYNGE | "Riders to the Sea" writer |
| LINDBERGH | "Gift From the Sea" writer Anne Morrow |
| SEA | Jules Verne, the science fiction pioneer, wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The ... |
| ERNEST | The Old Man And The Sea author, ... Hemingway |
| NEYLAND | Canadian from Quebec in Jules Verne's classic book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: 2 wds. |
| ANNE | "Gift From the Sea" author Lindbergh |
| RHYS | "Wide Sargasso Sea" writer |
| CONRAD | Rod can turn out to be a great sea writer |
