| KELLER | Helen, 1880-1968, US writer who became deaf and blind aged 19 months (6) |
| GOYA | Spanish painter who became deaf |
| ALCATRAZ | Island occupied by the activist group Indians of All Tribes for nineteen months, beginning in 1969 |
| FADED | Became deaf, died, and lost colour (5) |
| BAHAI | Religion with a 19-month calendar |
| HELEN | ___ Keller, first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts |
| DRYDEN | John, writer who became England's first official poet laureate in 1668 (6) |
| ERNEST | US writer who travelled frequently to Spain and was a fan of bullfighting which featured in his novel "Death in the Afternoon" (6) |
| SAFRAN | Jonathan ****** Foer, US writer who wrote the novel 'Everything Is Illuminated' (6) |
| WIESEL | Elie ****** , Romanian-born US writer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 (6) |
| CLANCY | US author who wrote Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger (6) |
| ASIMOV | Russian-born US author who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 (6) |
| RATTAN | The rodent was brown and blind (6) |
| GOALBY | Bob, 1968 US Masters golf champion (6) |
| ALCOTT | Louisa May_, late US author who mob We women in 1868(6) |
| URSULA | US author who wrote the Earthsea fantasy series, _ K. Le Guin (6) |
| IRVING | Washington, US author who created Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| LOMU | Rugby player who became the youngest ever All Black when he played his first international in 1994 aged 19 (4) |
| BOBGOALBY | 1968 US Masters golf champion who died this year (3,6) |
| LAGERLOF | Swedish writer who became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909 (8) |
