| ALEXHALEY | He based it on interviews with the black rights leader but this author titled his book The Autobiogr |
| RAE | ___ Dawn Chong (actress with a recurring role on Interview With the Vampire) |
| OSS | FDR based it on Britain's MI6 |
| MALCOLM | Black Rights leader, ... X |
| FORTHEBEST | Defensive position he based on famous footballer having good intentions |
| NEC | Tokyo-based IT company |
| MARTIN | HBO's popular show Game of Thrones ended. It was based on the book series by this author (last name) |
| VANDERPOST | A godfather of Prince William who wrote about the plight of the South African bushmen in his book The Lost World of the Kalahari (3,3,4) |
| INGOODFAITH | Salman Rushdie's work in which he discusses his book The Satanic verses and his life after its publication: 3 wds. |
| CROQUET | Game played at international level or in private gardens, one side competing with the black and blue balls and the other with the red and yellow balls (7) |
| EBONISTS | Cabinetmakers who work with the black hardwood of a tree that shares its genus with the persimmon (8) |
| OLDMORTALITY | Novel by Sir Walter Scott that forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the first series of his Tales of My Landlord |
| ROETHKE | Theodore ___, American poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his book The Waking |
| PCWREN | The Foreign Legion adventure film, Beau Geste,was based on this author's novel (1,1,4) |
| SEAOFMARMARA | Body of water in N.W. Turkey linked with the Black Sea by the Bosporus (3,2,7) |
| MESSENGER | A socialist journal associated with the Black labour union the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters |
| INCONVENIENT | Al Gore titled his 2006 documentary on global warming as what kind of truth? (12) |
| SAND | Shlomo **** , historian noted for his book 'The Invention of the Jewish People' (4) |
| MARKTWAIN | Pen name of Samuel Clemens who is famous for his book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: 2 wds. |
| PRIMOLEVI | Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor noted for his book The Periodic Table (5,4) |
