| PHILIPROTH | American novelist whose works include Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy's Complaint |
| ALIMACGRAW | American actress whose films include Goodbye, Columbus and Love Story |
| ISHERWOOD | Christopher ---, Englishborn novelist whose works include Goodbye To Berlin and A Single Man (9) |
| ALI | MacGraw of "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Love Story" |
| ELTONJOHN | Singer whose hit albums include Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (5,4) |
| ROTH | Philip ___, author of the novels The Plot Against America and Portnoy's Complaint (4) |
| KRANTZ | Judith ___, American novelist whose works include Scruples and Princess Daisy |
| IRALEVIN | American novelist whose works included Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives (3,5) |
| WILLIAMSTYRON | American novelist whose works include Sophie's Choice |
| AYNRAND | 20th Century Russian-American novelist whose works included The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged (3,4) |
| RAND | Ayn ---, 20th Century Russian-American novelist whose works included The Fountainhead (4) |
| HAWTHORNE | Nathaniel _, American novelist whose works included The Scarlet Letter (1850) |
| LEONURIS | American novelist whose books include Exodus and Trinity |
| CHERYLSTRAYED | American novelist whose memoir "Wild" was adapted into a 2014 film: 2 wds. |
| NABOKOV | Russian-American novelist whose most famous work is Lolita (7) |
| KOGONADA | Korean-American director of Columbus and After Yang |
| PORTISHEAD | ... PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, PORTERHOUSE STEAK, and PORTMANTEAU WORD |
| RICHARDPOWERS | American novelist whose novel The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| ZOOS | Columbus and San Diego have famous ones |
| OHIO | Home of Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland |
