| PAPILLON | Autobiographical jailbreak novel by French author Henri Charriere adapted for film in 1973 and 2017 (8) |
| LABOHEME | 1896 opera by Giacomo Puccini based on an 1851 novel by French author Henri Murger (2,6) |
| CURIOUS | Short story by F Scott Fitzgerald adapted for film in 2008, The ... Case Of Benjamin Button |
| THURBER | Which James wrote The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, adapted for film in 1947 and 2013? (7) |
| GUYS | Stage musical that was adapted for film in 1956, ---- and Dolls (4) |
| ERIK | Name of the phantom in a gothic novel by French author Gaston Leroux (4) |
| DARTAGNAN | Young protagonist in The Three Musketeers, adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (9) |
| FOGG | Phileas, hero of Around the World in Eighty Days, 1872 novel by French author Jules Verne (4) |
| EIGHTY | Around the World in ____ Days, adventure novel by French author Jules Verne (6) |
| LESMISERABLES | 1862 historical novel by French author Victor Hugo banned by the Catholic church until 1959 (3,10) |
| RIVERKWAI | Waterway in the title of a 1952 war novel by French author Pierre Boulle (5,4) |
| NEWSSTAND | Where to obtain reading matter ___ novel by French author around street (9) |
| OPERA | The Phantom Of The _, novel by French author, Gaston Leroux (5) |
| GARGANTUA | Titular giant of a 1534 novel by French author Francois Rabelais; the father of Pantagruel (9) |
| EMIL | ____ and the Detectives, 1929 novel by German author Erich Kastner later adapted for film and stage (4) |
| EDEN | East Of ____ , novel by U.S. author John Steinbeck published in 1952 and later adapted for film (4) |
| HENRYV | History play by William Shakespeare adapted for film by Laurence Olivier in 1944 and Kenneth Branagh in 1989 |
| LES | _ Miserables. 1862 novel by French author Victor Hugo (3) |
| PEYTON | ____ Place, novel by Grace Metalious published in 1956 that was later adapted for film and TV (6) |
| NEVERNEVERLAND | Most of novel by French writer, avoiding the sea, heading off for imaginary territory |
