| ALISONUTTLEY | Author of 1939 novel A Traveller in Time (6,6) |
| UTTLEY | Alison ?, author of 1939 novel A Traveller in Time |
| WEST | Nathanael ___, author of 1939 novel The Day of the Locust (4) |
| HOUSEHOLD | Geoffrey ?, author of 1939 novel Rogue Male |
| HELLMAN | Lillian ___, author of 1939 Broadway play The Little Foxes (7) |
| ASCH | Sholem, author of 1939 literary work The Nazarene (4) |
| WESTERNUNION | 1939 novel by Zane Grey |
| MURDERISEASY | 1939 novel by Agatha Christie |
| DRWHO | Traveller in time drained of energy attracted some laughter |
| TEMPTER | Coming back, traveller in time met the Devil (7) |
| REP | A traveller in obscure places (3) |
| SEAFARER | Fears are whipped up by a traveller, in the main (8) |
| ASTRONAUT | Setting out to Saturn, a traveller in space |
| TOMJOAD | Protagonist of 1939 John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath (3,4) |
| FINNEGANSWAKE | Book of 1939 by Irish author James Joyce: 2 wds. |
| KEEPCALMANDCARRYON | British motivational poster of 1939, rediscovered in 2000 (4,4,3,5,2) |
| WINTERWAR | Which conflict took place between Finland and the Soviet Union in the winter of 1939-40? (6,3) |
| LOVEAFFAIR | Dunne/Boyer classic of 1939 |
| BEAUGESTE | Gary Cooper classic of 1939 |
| MIZE | National League batting champ of 1939 |
