| EDGARALLANPOE | American writer who is famous for his work The Pit and the Pendulum: 3 wds. |
| DANIELLESTEEL | American writer who is the world's bestselling living author (8,5) |
| POE | Edgar Allan, author of The Pit and the Pendulum (3) |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest ___ American novelist who is famous for his novel The Old Man and the Sea |
| MARKTWAIN | Pen name of Samuel Clemens who is famous for his book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: 2 wds. |
| CANALETTO | Italian painter born in 1697 who is famous for his scenes of Venice (9) |
| SCOTT | Sir Walter ___ poet and playwright who is famous for works like Ivanhoe and Waverly |
| CHIPPENDALE | Which English cabinetmaker and designer (Thomas ___) is famous for his furniture of the 1750s and 1760s? (11) |
| RATS | Animals that help free the narrator in "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| SALMAN | The fatwa issued against author ... Rushdie for his work, The Satanic Verses, has never been lifted |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet and Stoic noted for his work the Satires (7) |
| SAULBELLOW | Canadian-American writer who won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 (4,6) |
| EDGAR | The Pit And The Pendulum writer, ... Allan Poe |
| ECO | Umberto, author of the novels The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum (3) |
| DELAROCHE | Paul, French painter noted for his work The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (9) |
| ANTONIO | ____ Canova, sculptor born in 1757 noted for his work The Three Graces (7) |
| POTTER | Dennis, TV dramatist noted for his work The Singing Detective (6) |
| MALCOLMGLADWELL | Canadian author who is a long-time writer for The New Yorker magazine: 2 wds. |
| COETZEE | J.M. ___ Waiting for the Barbarians author who is the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| BALLET | Rudolf Nureyev, who defected from Russia in 1961, was most famous for his work in this form of enter |
