| BOORADLEY | Recluse who fascinates Scout, Jem, and Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird": 2 wds. |
| TRUMAN | With 33-Across, friend of 15-Across who was the basis for Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
| EREMITE | A recluse who lives apart (7) |
| GREGORYPECK | 1963 Best Actor Oscar winner for playing Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird": 2 wds. |
| SISSYSPACEK | "Carrie" actress who narrates an audiobook of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird": 2 wds. |
| ALLURER | One who fascinates (7) |
| INTRIGUER | Plotter, one who fascinates? |
| ATTICUS | Forename of father to Jem and Scout Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (7) |
| FINCH | Father of Jem and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird (7,5) |
| TOKILL | "___ a Mockingbird": 2 wds. |
| BOO | Savior of Scout and Jem, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' |
| TOKILLA | 1960 novel by Harper Lee featuring Atticus Finch and his children Jem and Scout (2,4,1,11) |
| MOCKINGBIRD | 1960 novel by Harper Lee featuring Atticus Finch and his children Jem and Scout (2,4,1,11) |
| CAPOTE | Truman, writer on whom the character Dill in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is based (6) |
| KILLA | "To ___ Mockingbird" (2 wds.) |
| OLD | Of an age to remember Jem and the Holograms, say |
| ATTICUSFINCH | Justice-minded lawyer in "To Kill a Mockingbird" whose last name is a kind of bird: 2 wds. |
| ATIT | "I like work: it fascinates me I can sit and look - - for hours", Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (2,2) |
| AVOCADO | A very old cheese and dill ordered for starters -- and fruit (7) |
| SUTTON | Dudley ?, actor who played Tinker Dill in BBC TV series Lovejoy (6) |