| MABINOGION | Collection of stories regarded as the earliest prose literature of Great Britain |
| THEMABINOGION | ____ is a collection regarded as including the earliest prose stories in British literature |
| PASTA | Testaroli is described as the earliest recorded what? (5) |
| ELITE | Select a piece of prose literature (5) |
| FICTION | Prose literature (7) |
| SEICENTO | An abbreviation of the Italian for "1600" that simply refers to the art, culture and literature of Italy in the 17th-century years 1600-1699 (8) |
| HINDU | A person who believes in the Vedas, the ancient sacred literature of the Indian subcontinent |
| TRECENTO | The style of Italian art and literature of the 14th century |
| LITTLEIRONIES | Life's ___ 1894 collection of stories by Thomas Hardy which touches upon both rural life and the life of the bourgeois: 2 wds. |
| LEFANU | Sheridan - -; author of Uncle Silas and the collection of stories In a Glass Darkly that includes Green Tea and The Familiar (2,4) |
| SALINGER | J. D. -; author of The Catcher in the Rye and a collection of stories that includes A Perfect Day for Bananafish and Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut (8) |
| AESOPSFABLES | Collection of stories with morals, including The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs |
| GARTH | Greenwell whose novel "Small Rain" was called "an exquisite addition to the literature of illness" in The Yale Review (September, 2024) |
| SARTRE | Existentialist philosopher and author whose works include the novel Nausea and collection of stories The Wall (6) |
| BOOK | The Jungle ___ 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling featuring anthropomorphic animals |
| ARABIANNIGHTS | Collection of stories that includes "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" |
| ASHENDEN | 1928 collection of stories by W Somerset Maugham subtitled The British Agent (8) |
| ARABIAN | "The ___ Nights," collection of stories that includes Aladdin and Ali Baba |
| CANTERBURYTALES | Collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th Century (10,5) |
| THEJUNGLEBOOK | 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling featuring the 'man cub' Mowgli (3,6,4) |
