| ISLES | Small land holdings in Doris Lessing book (5) |
| ISLE | Man for one in Doris Lessing |
| CROFTS | Credit repeatedly starting to stifle small land holdings (6) |
| RUNDALE | Land holding, in Scotland |
| CLEFT | The ___, 2007 novel by Doris Lessing (5) |
| HANDS | Holdings in mahjong and pinochle |
| ISLET | Small land in the ocean actually sounds like a hole (5) |
| ACRES | Land holdings |
| DORIS | Lessing with a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| CALLS | Cheever and Lessing like subtle openings; does Bellow? |
| FIFTHCHILD | The -, 1988 short novel by Doris Lessing (5,5) |
| THESTORM | 1958 novel by Doris Lessing (1,6,4,3,5) |
| ARIPPLEFROM | 1958 novel by Doris Lessing (1,6,4,3,5) |
| MARTHAQUEST | 1952 novel by Doris Lessing (6,5) |
| THEGOOD | 1985 novel by Doris Lessing (3,4,9) |
| THEGOLDENNOTEBOOK | 1962 novel by Doris Lessing whose central character is Anna Wulf |
| HAS | "Every child ___ the capacity to be everything": Doris Lessing |
| GOODTERRORIST | 'The ---', 1985 novel by Doris Lessing (4,9) |
| THEGOLDEN | & 22A 1962 novel by Doris Lessing whose central character is Anna Wulf |
| TERRORIST | 'The Good ---', 1985 novel by Doris Lessing (9) |
