| KEYES | Marian ___, author of the novels Angels and Sushi for Beginners (5) |
| ENGEL | Author of "Bear": Marian ___ |
| BROWN | Author of Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and other novels in the series featuring the symbolist character Robert Langdon (5) |
| WHERE | E.M. Forster novel, ... Angels Fear to Tread (5) |
| JAPAN | Land of sumo and sushi |
| RICE | Anne ___, author of the novels Angel Time, Violin and Merrick (4) |
| ANNERICE | Author of the novels Angel Time, Violin and Merrick (4,4) |
| HANKS | Actor who plays Robert Langdon in Inferno, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, Tom ___ (5) |
| TRIOS | Charlie's Angels and the Jonas Brothers, for two |
| PUNCH | Clock element of wordplay (crossword hints for beginners) (5) |
| GROUP | Bunch of geeks read over university physics for beginners (5) |
| THEME | Musical passage for beginners to tell how each movement ends (5) |
| THING | Object for beginners to take home in new gear (5) |
| BASIC | High-level computer programming language for beginners which first appeared in 1964 (5) |
| IDIOT | Fool is doing it on time for beginners (5) |
| UVULA | Source of vocal sounds using very unusual letters, awkward for beginners |
| TYROS | Name another term for beginners, or novices (5) |
| PADMA | Lotus position and difficult Mountain asana for beginners |
| RATES | Judges rarely articulate tenets engrossingly simple for beginners (5) |
| IDIOM | Incoherent dialect intelligible only minutely for beginners (5) |
