| SCIFI | Shortened name of a genre of literature and film with futuristic themes (3-2) |
| ANIME | A style of cartoon film or TV programme, originating in Japan, with fantastic or futuristic themes (5) |
| AGASAGAS | Books in a genre of literature named after a heavy heat-retaining stove (3,5) |
| ELEMENTARY | With 24-Across, well-known line of literature and film |
| EPCOT | Disney's futuristic theme park |
| SMEE | Pirate's mate, in literature and film |
| RHINO | Shortened name of a large mammal of South East Asia and Africa, with one or two horns on its nose and a very thick skin (5) |
| HIPPO | Shortened name of a large, thick-skinned semi-aquatic African mammal with massive jaws (5) |
| OVERS | Shortened name of one of the categories of contestants that appeared on The X Facto (5) |
| BYRON | Lord of literature and poetry |
| DOONE | Lorna of literature and cookies |
| DUPIN | Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective that served as a prototype for a genre of investigators, C Aug |
| POLIO | Shortened name of the disease also called infantile paralysis (5) |
| EYRES | Jane of classic english literature, and those with the same last name |
| FRANK | Her diary became a classic of war literature and personalized the Holocaust (last name; 5) |
| GENRE | In film, literature and writing, what are crime, romance, horror and Westerns examples of? (5) |
| HOUSE | Old word for bingo; or, a genre of electronic dance music (5) |
| CRIME | Law breaking act; a genre of writing (5) |
| NOBEL | This prize is awarded in the fields of physics, medicine, chemistry, literature and peace |
| TWAIN | Mark in literature, and two in history |
