| NUMBEROF | The ?, 1980 novel by Robert A Heinlein (6,2,3,5) |
| THEBEAST | The -, 1980 novel by Robert A Heinlein (6,2,3,5) |
| REDPLANET | Novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a boarding school on Mars (3,6) |
| SPACECADET | 1948 novel by Robert A Heinlein (5,5) |
| UNIVERSE | 1941 novella by Robert A Heinlein republished in 1963 novel Orphans of the Sky (8) |
| GROK | Word for 'understand' coined by Robert A. Heinlein |
| ANSON | The A. in Robert A. Heinlein |
| CRETANLOVER | 'The -', 1980 novel by Jack Higgins (6,5) |
| AGREED | "I never learned from a man who ___ with me": Robert A. Heinlein (6) |
| TWITS | The ?, 1980 children's book by Roald Dahl (5) |
| LONGRIDERS | The ?, 1980 film Western starring the Carradine, Keach, Quaid and Guest brothers |
| HUGOS | Robert A. Heinlein won several |
| SCIENCEFICTION | Literary genre associated with Robert A Heinlein |
| UMBERTOECO | Writer of the 1980 novel, The Name of the Rose (7,3) |
| ECO | Umberto, author of the 1980 novel The Name of the Rose (3) |
| BIGREDONE | The ?, 1980 war film starring Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill (3,3,3) |
| FOG | The ?, 1980 horror film starring Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis (3) |
| STUNTMAN | The ?, 1980 action-comedy film starring Peter O'Toole and Steve Railsback |
| MIDDLEGROUND | The ____, a 1980 novel by Margaret Drabble, its central character a journalist called Kate Armstrong |
| NAME | The _ Of The Rose, 1980 novel by author Umberto Eco (4) |
