| TOLLER | Ernst -, German author of the stage plays Hoppla, We're Alive and The Blind Goddess (6) |
| GOETHE | German author of the novel The Sorrows Of Young Werther (6) |
| ENGELS | German author of the unfinished 1883 work Dialectics of Nature (6) |
| SANDRA | The Lake House and The Blind Side actress, _ Bullock (6) |
| THOMAS | German author of novels including Death In Venice (1912) |
| KASTNER | German author of the children's books Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap (5,7) |
| ERICH | German author of the children's books Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap (5,7) |
| ERICHKASTNER | German author of the 1929 children's novel Emil and the Detectives (5,7) |
| SCHILLER | German author of the Wallenstein trilogy of plays, completed in 1799 (8) |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin": 2 wds. |
| GRASS | Surname of the German author of The Tin Drum (5) |
| HESSE | Hermann, German author of the novel The Glass Bead Game (5) |
| LANGUAGE | Kindness is the ___ that the deaf can hear and the blind can see: Mark Twain (8) |
| GUNTERGRASS | German author of The Tin Drum (6,5) |
| HILLS | They were alive with the sound of music, according to Julie Andrews |
| MANN | Thomas, German author of the novel Buddenbrooks (4) |
| BOLL | German writer of the 1979 novel The Safety Net (4) |
| ENDE | Michael___: finish the German writer of The Neverending Story. (4) |
| STAHL | Georg Ernst -, German scientist born in 1659 who developed the phloqiston theory of combustion (5) |
| KORAN | Georg Ernst -, German scientist born in 1659 who developed the phlogiston theory of combustion (5) |
