| LIFEOF | The Secret ___, short story by James Thurber (4,2,6,5) |
| WALTER | The Secret .... .. ...... ....., a short story by James Thurber (4,2,6,5) |
| MITTY | The Secret .... .. ...... ....., a short story by James Thurber (4,2,6,5) |
| BOYS | 1996 film starring Winona Ryder and Lukas Haas, loosely based on a short story by James Salter |
| SECRETLIFEOFWALTERMITTY | The ?, 1947 comedy film starring Danny Kaye based on a story by James Thurber |
| SECRETLIFEOF | The ___, 1947 comedy film starring Danny Kaye based on a story by James Thurber (6,4,2,6,5) |
| EARLYTORISEAND | Start of a quip by James Thurber |
| GHOST | Word game popularized by James Thurber |
| OLDAGEISTHEMOST | Start of a quote by James Thurber |
| FILE | "___ and Forget" (classic humor piece by James Thurber) |
| WALTERMITTY | Daydreamer hero created by James Thurber (6,5) |
| PENDULUM | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| ANDTHE | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| PIT | The _ _ _ _, short story by Edgar Allan Poe about the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition (3,3,3,8) |
| USHER | The Fall Of The House Of ___, short story by Edgar Allan Poe (5) |
| CATBIRD | The - Seat; story by The Secret Life of Walter Mitty author James Thurber (7) |
| OVERCOAT | The ___, short story by Nikolai Gogol adapted as a mime play by Marcel Marceau in 1951 (8) |
| CTHULHU | "The Call of ___" (short story by H. P. Lovecraft) |
| IMP | "The Bottle ___" (short story by Robert Louis Stevenson) |
| MAN | The Cares of a Family ___ short story by Franz Kafka about a creature called Odradek |
