| HARTE | Bret who chronicled the Gold Rush |
| SWIFT | With pen names including the Drapier, Isaac Bickerstaff and Simon Wagstaff Esq, a dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, who chronicled the four voyages of the fictional surgeon and sea captain Lemue |
| GIBBON | Historian who chronicled the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (6) |
| PEPYS | Samuel ___, the 17th-century diarist who chronicled the Great Fire of London |
| GALSWORTHY | English novelist whose friendship with Joseph Conrad was forged on an ocean sail, and who chronicled the affluent property-obsessed Forsyte family in a saga or lengthy tale (10) |
| JOANCHEN | This actress starred in the 1987 Best Picture winner "The Last Emperor," which chronicled the final days of China's Qing dynasty |
| CARO | Robert who chronicled Robert Moses in "The Power Broker" |
| XENOPHON | Greek historian whose Hellenica chronicled the end of the Peloponnesian War (8) |
| DEADWOOD | This widely praised Western ran from 2004-06 and chronicled the settling of the Dakotas |
| HESIOD | Eighth-century Greek poet whose 1,022-line Theoqeny chronicled the history and genealogy of the gods (6) |
| STEVENSON | Edinburgh-born "Tusitala", or "tale-teller", of Samoa who chronicled a buccaneering search for Flint's treasure and the dark chemistry of a London physician (9) |
| SAMUEL | Pepys whose diary chronicled the Great Fire of London |
| LONDON | American author who chronicled abysmal conditions in this city (6) |
| DANTE | Writer who chronicled underworld figures |
| ARLO | Folkie who chronicled Alice |
| GIMMESHELTER | This movie chronicled The Rolling Stones infamous 1969 U.S. tour: 2 wds |
| CASANOVA | Italian adventurer who chronicled his life in Histoire de ma vie (8) |
| GOWEST | Film in which the Marx Brothers join the gold rush |
| NEIL | Young with the album "After the Gold Rush" |
| CHAPLIN | Star of the 1925 film "The Gold Rush" |
