| OLAN | Pearl Buck heroine in Poland |
| SONS | Pearl Buck book |
| AHOUSEDIVIDED | Pearl Buck title from Mark |
| EXILE | "The ...", 1936 volume of biography by Pearl Buck (5) |
| PERUSAL | Reading Pearl Buck while hugging you and me (7) |
| GOOD | 'The --', 1931 novel by Pearl Buck (4,5) |
| EARTH | 'The --', 1931 novel by Pearl Buck (4,5) |
| NEE | Pearl Buck, ___ Sydenstricker |
| THEGOODEARTH | 1931 novel by Pearl Buck (3,4,5) |
| DRAGONSEED | Pearl Buck novel |
| GOODEARTH | 'The ---', 1931 novel by Pearl Buck (4,5) |
| REED | Pearl Buck's "The Living ---" |
| THEGOOD | 1931 novel by Pearl Buck that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year (3,4,5) |
| POZNAN | Quietly, granny in Australia finds place in Poland |
| CRACOW | Leaders in Czech Republic with a lower place in Poland (6) |
| ASCH | United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957). |
| MAZURKA | Lively dance originating in Poland in the early 19th century (7) |
| AUROCHS | Extinct member of the cattle tribe also called urus, the last specimen of which is believed to have died in Poland in 1627 (7) |
| COSSACK | A member of the people who fled serfdom in Poland, etc, later fighting for Russia in return for land (7) |
| SOLIDARITY | Organisation of free trade unions in Poland that led the government in 1989 (10) |