| SAMUELCLEMENS | Real name of the author, publisher and lecturer who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (6,7) |
| TITLEPAGE | It shows a book's name, author, publisher, etc. |
| OPENSUP | After engaging writers, publisher says what it thinks (5,2) |
| AGT | Writer-publisher liaison: Abbr. |
| AGTS | Writer-publisher liaisons: Abbr. |
| MARKTWAIN | American author who created Tom Sawyer (4,5) |
| TWAIN | Mark who created Tom Sawyer |
| LITERARYAGENT | One who acts on behalf of an author in dealing with publishers and others (8,5) |
| NOAMCHOMSKY | American linguist, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer who joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 |
| RUPERTMURDOCH | US publisher and media entrepreneur born in Australia in 1931 |
| HUCKLEBERRYFINN | Boy who appears in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and is the subject of a follow-up Mark Twain novel (11,4) |
| KELLER | Helen ---, US author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy (6) |
| HELENKELLER | American author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy (5,6) |
| SAWYER | Tom ___ and Huckleberry Finn, 2014 adventure film 2 starring Joel Courtney and Jake T Austin, based on an 1876 Mark Twain novel (6) |
| LADS | Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, e.g. |
| MYDEARWATSON | Mischievous Tom Sawyer and another literary hero addressed affectionately (2,4,6) |
| ISBN | Abbreviation of the name of a number assigned to every book before publication identifying its language, publisher and provenance (1,1,1,1) |
| NIELSEN | In 1975, the disappearance of which Australian publisher and activist is associated with the struggle to save sections of Sydney's inner eastern suburbs from destruction by developers? (7) |
| RAFTS | Conveyances in "Deliverance" and "Huckleberry Finn" |
| HANNA | Cartoonist William who co-created Tom and Jerry |
