| ACHEBE | Chinua ___, Nigerian author of novels including Things Fall Apart (1958) and Anthills Of The Savannah (1987) (6) |
| CHINUAACHEBE | Nigerian writer whose first novel was Things Fall Apart (1958) |
| BEN | Nigerian author of the Booker-winning novel, The Famished Road; ... Okri |
| BENOKRI | Nigerian author of The Famished Road (3,4) |
| EXPLORER | Name for the first space satellite orbited by the United States, in 1958, and any of the largest series of uncrewed U.S. spacecraft, consisting of 55 scientific satellites launched between 1958 and 19 |
| GIRAFFES | Towering or journeying "fast-walking" camelopards - the reticulated high society or upper crust of the savanna (8) |
| LION | Apex predator of the savanna |
| LIONESSES | Queens of the savanna |
| RHINOS | Horned animals of the savanna, for short |
| HYAENA | Laugher of the savanna |
| LIONS | Big cats of the savanna |
| OKRI | Ben _, Nigerian poet and novelist who won the Booker Prize in 1991 with The Famished Road (4) |
| THINGSFALLAPART | 1958 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe (6,4,5) |
| SAHEL | Vast, semi-arid zone north of the savannas in Africa |
| PIONEER | Name for any of the first series of uncrewed U.S. space probes designed chiefly for interplanetary study that were launched between 1958 and 1973. The 10th probe in this series became, in June 1983, t |
| BIKEL | "The Defiant Ones" (1958) and "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" (1966) star Theodore |
| CRABEATINGFOX | Its scientific name is Cerdocyon thous, and it's also called the savanna fox or crab-eating dog. This canine lives in grassy or forested areas of South America. |
| INSTALL | Load the crumbling anthills from the hospital (7) |
| SOYINKA | Nigerian author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| PENROSE | Jonathan, winner of the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 and 1969 (7) |
