| KEENAN | Brian ___, writer whose book An Evil Cradling is an account of the years he spent as a hostage in Beirut (6) |
| MATADORS | Ernest Hemingway's Death In The Afternoon is an account of these fearless bullfighters |
| ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 1954 Nobel-winning American author whose early career was spent as a Foreign Correspondent for The Toronto Star in the 1920s: 2 wds. |
| DEAD | Spent, as a battery |
| WHARTON | Edith _, writer whose 1920 novel The Age of Innocence was adapted into a 1994 Scorsese film (7) |
| ROETHKE | Theodore ___, writer whose volume The Waking won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (7) |
| GAGS | Shuts up, as a hostage |
| KIDNAP | Take, as a hostage |
| DEIGHTON | Len _, writer whose novels include Funeral in Berlin and Billion-dollar Brain (8) |
| GRAHAME | Author whose book The Wind in the Willows was adapted into Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne and a series featuring the voices of David Jason, Michael Hordern and others (7) |
| NIAGARA | In 1859 the great Blondin walked across these falls on a tightrope; in later years he rode over on a bicycle, walked across blindfolded and even pushed a wheelbarrow to the other side |
| MAHMOUD | Iraqi striker known for being the youngest player ever to play for Iraq's national team and the team's captain for ten consecutive years. He retired in 2016 as a member of Iraq's Premier League club A |
| RICHARD | - I; king of the English known as the Lionheart who spent as little as six months in England during his 10-year reign (7) |
| RAYLEIGH | Lord -; title of the co-discoverer of argon who married Arthur James Balfour's sister Evelyn in 1871, the same year he explained why the sky is blue (8) |
| THEODYSSEY | Homer's epic tale of the years after the Trojan War and the return of the hero to Ithaca (3,7) |
| COVER | Jacket of a book; an envelope complete with stamp and postmark;or the top blanket of a bed (5) |
| WILDE | Author whose book The Happy Prince and Other Tales contains five stories including The Nightingale and the Rose and The Selfish Giant (5) |
| BIOGRAPHY | Art of writing a person's life story in an account of the same name (9) |
| ROSIE | Cider With _, 1959 book by Laurie Lee; an account of the author's childhood in Gloucestershire (5) |
| LEDGER | What is an account book of final entry, containing all the accounts (6) |
