| PIERRE | 1852 novel by US author Herman Melville subtitled or, The Ambiguities (6) |
| CABINBOY | Moby-Dick author Herman Melville worked as what when he sailed from New York in 1839? (5,3) |
| SCOTTTUROW | "All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law" speaker |
| TIE | Draw in only three of the ambiguities (3) |
| SHORTY | 1990 novel by US author Elmore Leonard followed by the sequel Be Cool in 1999 (6) |
| BELAMI | De Maupassant novel subtitled Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel |
| PSYCHO | 1959 horror novel by US author Robert Bloch set in the fictional California town of Fairvale (6) |
| LETTER | The Scarlet, historical novel by US writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1850 (6) |
| ONEDAY | Novel by Us author David Nicholls, made into a film starring Anne Hathaway (3,3) |
| ABIDES | Earth _. 1949 post- apocalyptic novel by US writer George R Stewart (6) |
| ISRAELPOTTER | 1855 novel by Herman Melville subtitled His Fifty Years of Exile (6.6) |
| DOUBTS | Ambiguities |
| CAKESANDALE | 1930 novel by British author Somerset Maugham subtitled or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (5,3,3) |
| MOBYDICK | 1851 novel by Herman Melville subtitled The Whale (4-4) |
| GET | 1990 novel by US author Elmore Leonard followed by the sequel Be Cool in 1999 (3) |
| CABIN | 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled Life Among the Lowly (5,4,5) |
| UNCLETOMS | 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled Life Among the Lowly (5,4,5) |
| HENRYESMOND | The History Of --- ---, 1852 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray (5,6) |
| LITTLEMEN | 1871 novel by US author Louisa May Alcott subtitled Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (6,3) |
| ETHAN | 1911 novel by US author Edith Wharton set in the fictional Massachusetts town of Starkfield (5) |
