| ADIE | Kate -. journalist whose autobiography The Kindness Of Strangers was published in 2002 (4) |
| CARR | Jimmy, London-born stand-up comedian whose autobiography Before & Laughter was published in 2021 (4) |
| ASIA | Was I about to cover continent ITV'S Strangers was set in? (4) |
| WINN | Godfrey -, author of the volumes of autobiography The Positive Hour and The Infirm Glory (4) |
| JOHN | And 10 US journalist whose book Ten Days that Shook the World concerned the 1917 October Revolution in Russia (4,4) |
| REED | John ?, US journalist whose book Ten Days that Shook the World concerned the 1917 October Revolution in Russia (4) |
| SNOW | C.P., author of Strangers and Brothers and describer of "the two cultures" (4) |
| JERI | "The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement" memoirist Laber |
| COHN | Nik -, rock music journalist whose books include Need and King Death (4) |
| BLANCHEBOIS | Heroine who declares "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" |
| BLANCHE | *"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" |
| EXITLINE | Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," e.g. |
| SAHL | Mort, Montreal-born comedian whose autobiography was entitled Heartland (4) |
| HILL | "Running Up That ___" (Kate Bush song featured prominently in Season 4 of "Stranger Things") |
| HOLM | Ian of "Strangers With Candy" |
| EYES | 'The ___ of strangers / Are cold as snowdrops': Philip Larkin |
| PELE | Soccer star whose autobiography is titled "My Life and the Beautiful Game" |
| MARS | Whence the title character of "Stranger in a Strange Land" |
| MCEWAN | Novelist whose The Comfort of Strangers was adapted into a film from Harold Pinter's screenplay (6) |
| LYNN | American country music singer-songwriter whose autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was made into an Oscar-winning film |