| JOHNIRVING | Author of novels In One Person and Last Night in Twisted River |
| RENGA | Five-line Japanese poem (tanka) in which the first three lines are written by one person and the last two by another (5) |
| HEROICVERSE | Twisted River echoes form of epic poetry |
| STAMP | Terence, English actor born in 1938, whose films include Far From The Madding Crowd and Last Night In Soho (5) |
| TERENCE | _ Stamp, actor whose films include Superman and Last Night in Soho (7) |
| BRAUTIGAN | Richard ?, author of novels In Watermelon Sugar and Trout Fishing in America (9) |
| ANITA | Author of novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea (5,5) |
| HAILEY | Arthur -, Bedfordshire-born author of novels In High Places and The Moneychangers (6) |
| ANITADESAI | Author of novels In Custody and Fasting, Feasting |
| DESAI | Author of novels In Custody and Fasting, Feasting (5,5) |
| SAND | George ___, 19th-century author of novels Indiana and Consuelo (4) |
| SADOMASOCHISM | Combination of sadistic and masochistic elements in one person (13) |
| SEVEN | Number of novels in "The Chronicles of Narnia" |
| LEARNING | Knowledge of old king having earliest of novels in German (8) |
| BRAVE | Work of author concealed end of novel in daring neologism (5,3,5) |
| NEWWORLD | Work of author concealed end of novel in daring neologism (5,3,5) |
| AMONGST | Between morning and last night song is composed (7) |
| GONER | King George takes in one person without hope (5) |
| PATIENT | Obvious to take in one person for surgery? |
| MOLAR | Moral degeneration rooted in one's person (5) |
