| FORTUNES | - of War; series of six novels by author Olivia Manning (8) |
| KRATOS | Divine personification of strength in Greek myth; central character in the God of War series of video games |
| MALORY | - Towers; series of six novels by Enid Blyton set in a Cornish boarding school (6) |
| BARSETSHIRE | Fictional county in a series of six novels by Anthony Trollope (11) |
| BALKANS | SE European region in which Olivia Manning set her trilogy of novels of WWII |
| TROLLOPE | Anthony -; Victorian novelist who wrote the Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels (8) |
| TEK | "___War" (series of William Shatner novels) |
| MANNING | Novelist whose Fortunes of War series was adapted into a BBC television drama with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson (7) |
| RATEDM | Like the God of War series |
| ALANALDA | This actor played Hawkeye Pierce in the ever-popular Korean War series about life at a field hospita |
| CHARLIECHAN | Detective hero of six novels (1925-32) by US author Earl Derr Biggers (7,4) |
| BUTLER | Austin _, star of the new Second World War series Masters of the Air (6) |
| TONIMORRISON | Author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on the basis of her first six novels, all featured in this puzzle |
| BLUBBER | 1974 novel by author of the 1970 novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret", about a fifth-grader bullied by her classmates about her weight |
| TIGEREYES | 1981 novel by author of the 1970 novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret", about a teen dealing with the unexpected death of her father: 2 wds. |
| DUTY | 1987 to 1990 war series, "Tour of ___" |
| NAME | The _ Of The Rose, 1980 novel by author Umberto Eco (4) |
| YODA | Jedi trainer voiced by Frank Oz in the Star Wars series of films (4) |
| OVER | In cricket, a series of six balls bowled by a bowler from the same end of the pitch (4) |
| MALORYTOWERS | A series of six children's novels set in a girls' boarding school by Enid Blyton (6,6) |
