| ANNASEWELL | Author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty (4,6) |
| ANNA | _ Sewell, author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty (4) |
| SEWELL | Anna _, author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty (6) |
| SAINTSAENS | French composer of the 1877 grand opera Samson et Delilah (5-5) |
| IBSEN | Henrik, author of the 1877 play The Pillars of Society (5) |
| SQUIREGORDON | Second owner of the titular horse in the 1877 Anna Sewell novel Black Beauty, following Farmer Grey (6,6) |
| SENATOR | The -, 1877 novel by Anthony Trollope (8,7) |
| AMERICAN | The -, 1877 novel by Anthony Trollope (8,7) |
| BOLSHOI | ___ Theatre, site in Moscow, Russia, of the 1877 premiere of ballet Swan Lake (7) |
| SEAN | Actor who starred as Farmer Grey in a film adaptation of Anna Sewell's novel Black Beauty (4) |
| HORSES | Animals described in Anna Sewell's classic novel Black Beauty (6) |
| RUMERGODDEN | Author of the 1939 novel Black Narcissus (5,6) |
| GODDEN | Rumer, author of the novel Black Narcissus (6) |
| GATISS | Mark ___, actor-writer; author of 2008 novel Black Butterfly (6) |
| EVELYN | British writer of the comic novel Black Mischief ,_ Waugh (6) |
| BEAUTY | Black ___, famous 1877 novel by Anna Sewell (6) |
| BLACKBEAUTY | 1877 novel by Anna Sewell; fictional story of a horse (5,6) |
| AMERICANSENATOR | The ?, 1877 novel by Anthony Trollope |
| BLACK | 1877 novel by Anna Sewell (5,6) |
| THEAMERICANSENATOR | 1877 novel by Anthony Trollope |
