| MANTEL | Hilary -; author of the Thomas Cromwell series of novels beginning with Wolf Hall (6) |
| WESSEX | Anglo-Saxon kingdom whose name was revived in Thomas Hardy's series of novels beginning with Under the Greenwood Tree (6) |
| MONTGOMERY | L. M. ___, Canadian author best known for the series of novels beginning with 1908's Anne of Green Gables (10) |
| WILBERTAWDRY | Author of the 'Thomas the Tank Engine' stories (7,5) |
| HOWARD | Queen of England whose wedding was on the same day as the execution of Thomas Cromwell (9,6) |
| REMAKE | Pierce Brosnan starred in a 1999 ______ of the Thomas Crown Affair. (6) |
| PSYCHE | Spy novel beginning to change ambassador's mind (6) |
| NANCYDREW | Fictional heroine of 600+ novels beginning with The Secret of the Old Clock, (1930, by Mildred Wirt Benson) (5,4) |
| RICH | Henry VIII's minister who played a key role in the trials of Sir Thomas More and John Fisher as well as the downfall of Sir Thomas Cromwell and the dissolution of the monasteries (4) |
| RENDELL | Creator of the fictional Chief Inspector Wexford; 24 novels, beginning with 1964' s From Doon with Death (4,7) |
| DICKENS | He wrote serialized novels beginning with The Pickwick Papers, and his name was sometimes used to describe the squalid conditions in which the lower classes lived. |
| CATHERINE | Queen of England whose wedding was on the same day as the execution of Thomas Cromwell (9,6) |
| WOLFHALL | Historical drama series about the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII: 2 wds. |
| HOLBEIN | Artist who painted portraits of Erasmus, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, several of the latter's wives and other prominent figures at the Tudor court (7) |
| RINGO | Beatles drummer and original narrator of the Thomas The Tank Engine series, ... Starr |
| PRANNOY | He won crucial fifth rubbers in the quarters and the semis of the Thomas Cup recently. (7) |
| HILARYMANTEL | English novelist who won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012 for her novels about Thomas Cromwell (6,6) |
| RYLANCE | Which Oscar-winning actor played Thomas Cromwell in the BBC's Wolf Hall trilogy? (7) |
| MOON | Word linking with wolf, snow, pink, strawberry, harvest, hunter's or frost for some of the traditional names of Earth's natural satellite in its full phases (4) |
| RUSSO | Rene ---, Pierce Brosnan's co-star in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair |
