| AYLA | The Clan of the Cave Bear protagonist whose name means "moonlight" in Turkish |
| LOMAN | Arthur Miller protagonist whose name is aptly found in "megalomania" |
| ASHA | "Wish" protagonist whose name is hidden in "sea shanty" |
| INNIT | Moonlight in Nice somewhat uplifting, don't you agree, mate? |
| ASODA | Bette Midler "I'm just a girl with moonlight in my eyes, I want a ___ and a souvenir" |
| JEAN | Author of The Clan Of The Cave Bear, ... M Auel |
| AUEL | Author of "The Clan of the Cave Bear" |
| JEANAUEL | "The Clan of the Cave Bear" author |
| UEL | "Clan of the Cave Bear" novelist Jean |
| BEAR | Daryl Hannah plays a Cro-Magnon woman in The Clan of the Cave ___ |
| CLAN | "The ___ of the Cave Bear" (1980 best seller by Jean Auel) |
| THECLAN | "___ of the Cave Bear": Auel |
| CLANOF | The first in Jean Auel's Earth's Children series, The ... The Cave Bear (4,2) |
| CAVE | Auel's "The Clan of the __ Bear" |
| HIRO | Snow Crash protagonist ___ Protagonist, whose first name sounds like a word meaning "protagonist" |
| PALATINE | One of Rome's seven hills, known in legend as the location of the cave where the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus (8) |
| DOLMA | Dish whose name means "stuffed" in Turkish |
| ASH | Pokemon protagonist whose storyline concluded in 2023 after 1 232 episodes |
| MTIDA | Site of the Cave of Zeus, in myth: Abbr. |
| OFTHE | Jean Auel's The Clan ... Cave Bear (2,3) |