| HUXLEY | Aldous -; author of novels including Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Brave New World and Island (6) |
| ISLAND | Final novel by Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and After Many a Summer (6) |
| DYSTOPIA | Undesirable type of society as described in The Sleeper Awakes, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four (8) |
| ALDOUS | English novelist 1894-1963; author of Crome Yellow and Mortal Coils (6,6) |
| HARRIS | Lewis and - - -, island in the Outer Hebrides, separated from the North West Coast of Scotland by the Minch (6) |
| RIALTO | District and island of Venice with a famous bridge over the Grand Canal (6) |
| MALIBU | Good place for beach bum to play around a lake and island (6) |
| DAHLIA | Keeps an eye on airport overlooking harbour, port and island for Daisy's relative (6) |
| PENANG | Malaysian state and island (6) |
| AEGEAN | Sea and islands of SE Europe (6) |
| FOWLES | Teacher-turned-writer who penned The French Lieutenant's Woman, Shipwreck and Islands (6) |
| SILENT | Like the "s" in "aisle" and "island" |
| ELLICE | Gilbert and -- Islands, former British colony (6) |
| ALDOUSHUXLEY | Author of novels Island and Antic Hay |
| CAICOS | Turks and - Islands |
| COLUMBIAN | ____ exchange, the transfer of culture, technology etc between the New World and the Old World (9) |
| PEABO | Bryson who sings "A Whole New World" and "Beauty and the Beast" |
| EYE | Looker appears in Crome Yellow (3) |
| MORGANFREEMAN | Unforgiven actor who narrated the scientific documentaries March of the Penguins and Island of Lemurs: Madagascar: 2 wds. |
| GUADALCANAL | Province and island of the Solomon Islands in the S.W. Pacific that contains the country's capital H |