| AMOSOZ | Author of novels My Michael and Panther in the Basement |
| AMANITA | A genus of fungi that includes the blusher, death cap, destroying angel, or fool's mushroom, fly agaric, grisette and panther cap (7) |
| JAGUAR | Operating system between Puma and Panther |
| KOOMSON | Dorothy ?, author of novels My Best Friend's Girl and The Ice Cream Girls |
| GEM | The Pink Panther, in "The Pink Panther" |
| JEWEL | The Pink Panther, in "The Pink Panther" |
| PICOULT | Jodi ___, author of the novels My Sister's Keeper and Harvesting the Heart (7) |
| BAGHEERA | Black panther in the Rudyard Kipling novel The Jungle Book (8) |
| FIGHTERPLANE | Corsair or Panther, in the military |
| INDIAKNIGHT | Author of the novels My Life on a Plate and Don't You Want Me (5,6) |
| RIOS | Modern-day Kia models whose name was originally used by Panther in the Seventies (4) |
| UPSTAIRS | Old word for the part of a large house occupied by its masters and mistresses as opposed to the servants' quarters in the basement (8) |
| CAMNEWTON | Quarterback who led the Carolina Panthers in both passing and rushing in 2012 and 2017: 2 wds. |
| OFAOLAIN | Nuala ?, author of 2001 novel My Dream of You |
| JODI | Author of the 2004 novel My Sister's Keeper, _ Picoult (4) |
| SEARCHHIGHANDLOW | *Look for in the attic, then in the basement |
| AMOS | 'My Michael' author Oz |
| ANYA | ___ Seton (Author of 1941 novel My Theodosia) |
| ROALDDAHL | Welsh-born writer of the 1979 novel My Uncle Oswald (5,4) |
| EBLANA | Theatre located in the basement of BusA¡ras, but no longer in operation. It took its name from a settlement identified by Ptolemy. (6) |
