| JERRYRUBIN | American social activist who wrote the 1970 book, DO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution |
| JACKLONDON | American author, journalist and social activist who wrote The Call of the Wild (4,6) |
| HELENEHANFF | US author of the 1970 book 84, Charing Cross Road (6,5) |
| BOUTON | Pitcher Jim who wrote the 1970 memoir "Ball Four" |
| STYMIE | Former golfing scenario of a ball blocking the hole from another ball (6) |
| OSSIEDAVIS | US actor, director, poet, playwright, author and social activist who played Da Mayor in Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing |
| BLADERUNNER | Movie based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" |
| READA | ___ _ book (Do this at the library) |
| COOK | ___ the books (do "creative accounting") |
| END | What books do on their last page |
| PAINE | Thomas ___ (1737 - 1809), political activist who wrote The Rights of Man ((1791 - 92) (5) |
| GRACEPALEY | Author and activist who wrote, "It is the poet's responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless" |
| DEDE | ___ Mirabal, Dominican activist who wrote the 2009 memoir, "Vivas en Su Jardin" |
| TRIBE | Native American social federation, homophones for four of which can be found at the starts of 17-, 2 |
| JAMESBALDVVIN | Novelist and civil rights activist who wrote "Go Tell It on the Mountain" |
| GERMAINEGREER | Writer of the influential 1970 book The Female Eunuch (8,5) |
| SUNYATSEN | 'Pioneer of the revolution' that overthrew China's Qing (Manchu) dynasty in the early years of the 20th century (3,3-3) |
| CHOMSKY | Professor, linguist and political activist who wrote Understanding Power and How the World Works (7) |
| PATON | Author and anti-apartheid activist who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country (5) |
| ANGELADAVIS | *African American activist who wrote "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (see letters 5 to 7) |
