| EBWHITE | Author whose initials can be anagrammed into the second word of his most famous work |
| AYE | Word that can be anagrammed into a synonym of itself |
| BARK | Place where initials can be carved |
| BASRA | City whose name can be anagrammed, appropriately, to ARABS |
| CRITCH | St. John's, Newfoundland born comedian Mark whose last name is the missing word of his bestselling book 'Son of a ___' |
| AMIENS | Shakespearean Lord's appearance in first word of his play |
| TSELIOT | Writer whose initials, when doubled, become another answer in this puzzle |
| NASHE | Which English writer wrote the satirical masque Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600) and claims the picaresque The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) as his most famous work? (5) |
| VLADIMIRNABOKOV | He named a minor character in his most famous work Vivian Darkbloom, an anagram of his name |
| HOLST | His most famous work opens with "Mars, the Bringer of War" |
| GOYA | Spanish artist of the late 18th/early 19th centuries, one of his most famous dark period paintings is entitled "Saturn devouring his son" (4) |
| ARLOGUTHRIE | "You can get anything you want ..." opens the chorus of his most famous song |
| SEAANIMAL | Category whose name becomes that of an example of the category when you combine the first word and the last letter of the second word |
| FORT | Place that's idiomatically "held down" (which can be followed by the second word of the *clue answers) |
| LFRANKBAUM | "Home Again" is the last chapter of his most famous book |
| PYTHAGORAS | Greek mathematician - his most famous theorem states that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides |
| BLETCHLEY | ___ Park, where this puzzle's honoree did his most famous work |
| POE | He rhymed 19 different words with "Lenore" in his most famous work |
| JAWS | Steven Spielberg is spearheading a new feature-length movie about legendary film scorer John Williams; the iconic score for this 1975 Spielberg movie is one of his most famous |
| MOORE | English autodidact astrologer and physician whose most famous work, Vox Stellarum, "The Voice of the Stars", was a 1700 almanac of predictions that continues to be known by his name today (5) |