| GOVERNMENTBIOLOGIST | Farley Mowat's 1963 book Never Cry Wolf is about his time as a ___ ___ studying the decline of the Caribou population in northern Canada |
| MOWAT | Canadian author Farley of 1963 book Never Cry Wolf |
| SOLOMON | ____ Northup, U.S. farmer who wrote about his time as a slave in the memoir Twelve Years A Slave (7) |
| CRYWOLF | Something to 'Never' do as per Canadian author Farley Mowat's 1963 book: 2 wds. |
| WAS | "I ___ studying when you called" |
| TOOL | "We must use time as a ___, not as a couch": JFK |
| GAMMA | A bit of Greek language book never gets right |
| STORM | A tempest accompanied by a gale of force 10, according to the grading of wind speeds devised by Sir Francis Beaufort during his time as a naval hydrographer (5) |
| OOTEK | Character in "Never Cry Wolf" (1983) based on Canadian author Farley Mowat's samenamed book |
| SPENGLER | Oswald ___, German philosopher whose works include the two-volume The Decline of the West (8) |
| DETERIORATION | The decline of the speech from the dieter (13) |
| OSWALD | ___ Spengler, author of The Decline of the West (6) |
| SEADOG | A sailor with long experience of the ocean is known as a _ _ (3-3) |
| INSANIA | 2004 Peter Andre top ten single written about his time on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (7) |
| OMEGA | The ___ wolf is the lowest-ranking wolf in a pack, subordinate to all other pack members |
| DINNERTABLE | In 2017 Kirsty Allsopp spoke of the decline of this furniture item, calling fewer family meals together a "real loss" |
| NEWFOUNDELAND | With 'The', Farley Mowat's 1989 book about The Rock: 3 wds. |
| PIANOMAN | Billy Joel song about his time playing the keys at a bar |
| BRIGHT | 1960 book by Gavin Maxwell about his time raising otters, Ring Of _ Water (6) |
| ERNEST | ____ Hemingway, U.S. author who wrote about his time on safari in Green Hills Of Africa (6) |
