| DORIAN | The Picture of ___ Gray gothic novel by Oscar Wilde which tells the story of a man and his unusual portrait |
| DECAY | The ___ of Lying - An Observation 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde which is included in his collection of essays Intentions |
| BIBLE | Bestselling book that tells the story of a man who built an ark to ride out an epic storm |
| CASTLE | The ___ of Otranto gothic novel by Horace Walpole which tells the story of Manfred and his family |
| HYDE | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr ___ gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson which tells the story of a legal practitioner Gabriel John Utterson |
| OLDMANAND | The ___ the Sea short novel by Ernest Hemingway which tells the story of a Cuban fisherman: 3 wds. |
| THREEMENINABOAT | Novel by Jerome K Jerome which tells the story of a holiday on the River Thames aboard a camping skiff (5,3,2,1,4) |
| GENESIS | Book of the Bible which tells of the Fall of Man, Cain and Abel, and Noah and the Flood (7) |
| DRACULA | Gothic novel by Bram Stoker which tells the story of a vampire on the loose |
| EYRE | Jane ___ novel by Charlotte Bronte which tells the story of the eponymous character as a governess |
| DIAZ | Hernan whose novel "Trust," which tells the story of a Depression-era financier through four linked narratives, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (May, 2023) |
| DORIANGRAY | The Picture of ___, novel by Oscar Wilde (6,4) |
| GRAY | The Picture of Dorian ___ 1980 gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde |
| REQUIEM | Movie shown at Cannes Film Festival in 2000 which tells the story of a couple's descent into drug addiction, ... For A Dream |
| RILLAOFINGLESIDE | Lucy Maud Montgomery book which tells the story of Anne and Gilbert's daughter during the First World War: 3 wds. |
| MENOFHONOR | 2000 film starring Cuba Gooding Jr. which tells the story of the first African American Master Diver in the US Navy (3,2,5) |
| QUIZSHOW | Film which tells the true story of the scandal of the fifties TV game show Twenty One (4,4) |
| ADAMANT | It was a man and his three kids that made a mess in the middle of Watergate Beach, I'm sure of it (7) |
| ROOTS | Book by Alex Haley which tells the story of the slave Kunta Kinte (5) |
| HOOK | 1991 film, directed by Steven Spielberg, which tells the story of an adult Peter Pan (4) |
