| GIDE | Andre -, French author of 1909 novel Strait is the Gate; 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature winner (4) |
| ANDREGIDE | French author of 1909 novel Strait is the Gate; 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature winner (5,4) |
| MALRAUX | Andre, French author of the 1933 novel La Condition humaine (7) |
| TONI | US author; 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature winner (4,8) |
| ANNE | "___ of Avonlea," literary sequel of 1909 |
| PASTERNAK | Boris ?, author of 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago; 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature winner |
| ENGLISHCHANNEL | Body of water in which the Dover Strait is the narrowest part (7,7) |
| MENAI | The Strait is a channel of the Irish Sea separating the Welsh mainland from Anglesey (5) |
| DYLAN | Bob ?, singer-actor; 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature winner (5) |
| ISHIGURO | Kazuo, 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner (8) |
| DARIOFO | Italian playwright, 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature winner (5,2) |
| GORDIMER | SA Nobel Prize in Literature winner (surname) (8) |
| SARTRE | 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature winner (6) |
| ANNVERONICA | 1909 novel by HG Wells, the story of "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty" |
| SUNDA | The ____ Strait is between Java and Sumatra, two of the Greater ____ Islands |
| ROADTOOZ | The ___, 1909 novel by L Frank Baum (4,2,2) |
| STRAIT | Gide's "___ Is the Gate" |
| VITUS | Danish explorer, ___ Bering (Trivia! The Bering Strait is named after him) |
| AVONLEA | Anne of ___ (1909 novel) (7) |
| TONOBUNGAY | 1909 novel by H.G. Wells (4-6) |
