| CHEEVER | John ___, US short story writer sometimes dubbed 'the Chekhov of the suburbs' |
| RIESLING | German grape variety sometimes dubbed 'the king of white wines' (8) |
| OVAL | Fragment of the Chekhov allegory found in the ground in Australia (4) |
| RUNYON | Damon ___, US short-story writer who coined the phrase 'Hooray Henry' ('Tight Shoes,' 1936) (6) |
| POE | Edgar Allan ___, US short story writer who died in 1849 (3) |
| ANTON | Mr. Chekhov of plays |
| AMBROZEPIRRCE | US short story writer who authored the satirical work The Devil's Dictionary (7,6) |
| OHENRY | Pen-name of the US short-story writer William Sydney Porter (1,5) |
| LARDNER | Ring --, US short-story writer who wrote "The Young Immigrunts" (sic) |
| OCONNOR | Mary Flannery --, 1925-64, US short-story writer (7) |
| DAMONRUNYON | US short story writer with a vernacular style (5,6) |
| LONDON | Name a US short-story writer, novelist, and adventurer, Jack ... (6) |
| POEM | Verse, written by US short-story writer, read by millions (4) |
| EXURBIA | In the US, what is the area outside of the suburbs? (7) |
| CAVA | US short story writer mentioned Spanish tipple (4) |
| EALING | London district dubbed the Queen of the Suburbs (6) |
| ALIGN | Properly adjust what the writer sometimes drops, we hear (5) |
| BAY | One of the suburbs served by BRIDJ: Canada ... (3) |
| RUBBER | Run taxi around far side of the suburb on the new types presumably? (6) |
| EAPOE | How "The Raven" writer sometimes signed his name |
