| KESEY | Ken, U.S. novelist and countercultural figure (5) |
| NORTON | Ken, U.S. former heavyweight boxer born in 1943 nicknamed The Fighting Marine (6) |
| BEATNIK | Trump clan rejected countercultural figure (7) |
| HIPPIE | Countercultural figure at Woodstock, perhaps |
| MARKTWAIN | U. S. novelist and humorist (4,5) |
| WRATH | Anger in U.S. novelist, it's said (5) |
| KEROUAC | Jack, U.S. novelist and poet who was a leading figure in the Beat Generation (7) |
| STEEL | Tough quality in romantic U.S. novelist (5) |
| PRATE | Chatter with fine U.S. novelist (5) |
| LEVIN | Ira ___, U.S. novelist who wrote The Stepford Wives (5) |
| AUSTER | Paul, U.S. novelist and essayist whose books include the New York Trilogy (6) |
| DAVID | ____ Baldacci, U.S. novelist born in 1960 noted for his legal thrillers (5) |
| EDITH | --- Wharton, U.S. novelist |
| LEWIS | C. S. -; novelist who wrote The Space Trilogy comprising Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength (5) |
| LEARY | Countercultural Timothy |
| FROTHY | Fine U.S. novelist followed by Yankee that's lightweight (6) |
| BELLOW | U.S. novelist's loud cry (6) |
| ALCOTT | U.S. novelist, abolitionist and feminist, born 1832, who sometimes used the pen name A.M. Barnard (6) |
| BETROTH | Put money on U.S. novelist in pledge (7) |
| TOMCLANCY | U.S. novelist who created Jack Ryan (3,6) |
