| FUTURISTIC | Like "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| FEMINIST | Like "The Handmaid's Tale," to many critics (but not to the author) |
| BRUCEMILLER | Creator of the Hulu TV series The Handmaid's Tale based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood: 2 wds. |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Author of the dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale and its sequel The Testaments: 2 wds. |
| DEMURE | Like a lot of the attire in "The Handmaid's Tale" |
| DYSTOPIANNOVEL | "The Handmaid's Tale" or "The Hunger Games" |
| ATWOOD | Margaret, Canadian author of the novel The Handmaid's Tale (6) |
| ASSASSIN | The Blind ___; A 2000 novel by The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood (8) |
| FIENNES | Joseph ___ stars as Commander Fred Waterford in the dystopian TV series, The Handmaid's Tale (7) |
| ELISABETH | The Handmaid's Tale star who plays Mrs Tyler in the horror film Us, ___ Moss (9) |
| TESTAMENTS | The ___ (Margaret Atwood's new 2019 novel, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale which came out in 1985) |
| THETESTAMENTS | Sequel to Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale; joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize (3,10) |
| GILEAD | Republic of -; the fictional totalitarian theocracy in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (6) |
| MARGARET | & 18D Which Canadian author wrote The Handmaid's Tale and its followup The Testaments, a Booker Prize winner? (8,6) |
| ELISABETHMOSS | Star of Top of the Lake and The Handmaid's Tale (9,4) |
| LYDIA | Ann Dowd plays the formidable Aunt ___ in TV's The Handmaid's Tale |
| MOSS | Elisabeth, U.S. actress who plays June Osborne in the dystopian TV series The Handmaid's Tale (4) |
| OTFAGBENLE | "The Handmaid's Tale" actor who plays President Obama in "The First Lady": 3 wds. |
| SERENA | ___ Joy, the Commander's wife in dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale (6) |
| JOSEPH | The brother of Ralph Fiennes who plays Commander Fred Waterford in The Handmaid's Tale (6) |
