| BUCHAN | John -, author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| JOHNBUCHAN | Author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (4,6) |
| HANNAY | Protagonist and narrator of John Buchan's 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| POWELL | Robert, The Thirty Nine Steps actor (6) |
| GREENMANTLE | Richard Hannay novel (1916) from John Buchan, sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps (11) |
| BULLIVANT | Sir Walter --, character in John Buchan's novel 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' (9) |
| STEPS | The Thirty-Nine ___: 1915 novel by John Buchan (5) |
| ELG | Taina of "The Thirty-Nine Steps" |
| NEST | Gang of spies in The Thirty Nine Steps (4) |
| RICHARDHANNAY | Itinerant ranch hand stuck in shaft with leading investigator in The Thirty-Nine Steps (7,6) |
| WELCH | Ed ?, musical collaborator with Spike Milligan whose film scores include 1978 film drama The Thirty Nine Steps |
| ALBUCA | Genus of plants in the family Hyacinthaceae, most of the 30 species of which are native to Southern Africa |
| HAY | Ian ___, author of 1915 war book The First Hundred Thousand (3) |
| FORD | Ford Madox _, author of the 1915 novel The Good Soldier (4) |
| CRAVAT | Clothing item named from being worn by Croats in the French army during the Thirty Years' War |
| THIRTYNINESTEPS | 1915 novel written by John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (Governor General of Canada from 1935 to 1940) for which Alfred Hitchcock directed the 1935 movie thriller adaptation, The ___-___ ___ |
| THIRTYNINE | The -, 1915 novel by John Buchan (6-4,5) |
| DOCTORSYN | 1915 novel by Russell Thorndike subtitled A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh (6,3) |
| LOSTPRINCE | The ___, 1915 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett (4,6) |
| OFHUMANBONDAGE | 1915 novel by W Somerset Maugham that begins with the death of Helen Carey |
