| SCOUTING | ---- for Boys, book by Robert Baden-Powell (8) |
| ALGER | Best selling author of boys' books |
| IOLA | Joe Hardy's girlfriend in the Hardy Boys books |
| HARDY | Frank or Joe of boys' books |
| MISSAL | A girl-meets-boy book |
| SCOUTS | Movement for boys founded by Robert Baden-Powell in 1907 (6) |
| BOYS | Scouting for -; short title of a handbook by Robert Baden-Powell (4) |
| SCOUT | - Association; with its home and headquarters at Gilwell Park, a worldwide youth organisation founded by Robert Baden-Powell in 1908 (5) |
| IRONJOHN | Grimm's fairy tale and title of a book by Robert Bly (subtitled A Book About Men) |
| NYERI | City in Kenya, site of the tomb of Robert Baden Powell (5) |
| PREPARED | What Baden-Powell told boy scouts, and Scar told an army of hyenas, to be (8) |
| BOYSCOUT | Baden-Powell follower (3, 5) |
| SAL | "Blueberries for ___": Caldecott Honor Book by Robert McCloskey |
| ANATOMY | The ___ of Melancholy, book by Robert Burton published in 1621 (7) |
| POOR | Rich Dad ___ Dad book by Robert Kiyosaki |
| PIED | ".... Piper of Hamelin" book by Robert Browning (4) |
| BARON | Robert Baden-Powell's title |
| GODDESS | "The ... ...", 1948 book by Robert Graves subtitled A historical grammar of poetic myth (5,7) |
| WHITE | "The ... ...", 1948 book by Robert Graves subtitled A historical grammar of poetic myth (5,7) |
| TOBACCONIST | The ___, bestselling book by Robert Seethaler, set in pre-war Vienna, published in 2016 |
