| THINMAN | 'The --', 1932 novel by Dashiell Hammett (4,3) |
| MALTESE | The ....... ......, standard example of a 1A in the novel by Dashiell Hammett (7,6) |
| HARVEST | 1929 novel by Dashiell Hammett (3,7) |
| TOBACCO | --- Road, 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell, adapted for a 1941 film directed by John Ford (7) |
| HAVEHIS | 1932 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers (4,3,7) |
| CARCASE | 1932 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers (4,3,7) |
| PUDDING | see 12d, 1932 novel by Nancy Mitford |
| HGWELLS | Sinclair Lewis nominated him for the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| DOOM | Ada -, owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the 1932 novel of that name by Stella Gibbons (4) |
| FLORA | Heroine of the 1932 novel Cold Comfort Farm by English author Stella Gibbons (5) |
| POSTE | Heroine of the 1932 novel Cold Comfort Farm by English author Stella Gibbons (5) |
| LARWOOD | Harold, England Test cricketer who bowled 'bodyline' in the 1932-3 tour of Australia (7) |
| FALCON | The ....... ......, standard example of a 1A in the novel by Dashiell Hammett (7,6) |
| THEMALTESEFALCON | Novel by Dashiell Hammett or the film noir directed by John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart playing Sam Spade (3,7,6) |
| MALTESEFALCON | The ..., a 1930 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett with Sam Spade as the main character (7,6) |
| THIN | "The ___ Man", novel by Dashiell Hammett (4) |
| DAINCURSE | "The ... ...", 1929 novel by Dashiell Hammett (4,5) |
| GLASSKEY | The ?, 1931 novel by Dashiell Hammett (5,3) |
| DAIN | "The ___ Curse", novel by Dashiell Hammett (4) |
| ALDOUSHUXLEY | English writer whose most famous work was the 1932 novel Brave New World (6,6) |
