| BARSET | Trollope's fictional English county, in the title of the final novel in a six-volume series |
| END | The ___, final novel in A Series of Unfortunate Events (3) |
| SOMERSET | English county in the West Country (8) |
| ANCIENTROME | Subject of a six-volume history by Edward Gibbon |
| HALLOWS | Deathly ---, magical objects in the title of the final Harry Potter book |
| ALOHA | Title of the final episode of Hawaii Five-O, shown on US TV in April 2020 |
| BROTHERS | The titular relation of Alyosha, Dmitry, and Ivan Karamazov in the final novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (8) |
| UNLESS | The final novel by Canadian writer Carol Shields, shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize |
| BARSETSHIRE | Trollope's fictional county (11) |
| BARCHESTER | Trollope's fictional cathedral city (10) |
| SHARPESCOMPANY | The 13th historical novel in a series by Bernard Cornwell about a rifleman in the British Army, featuring the siege of Badajoz during the peninsular war (7,7) |
| POWELL | Anthony, author of the twelve-volume series of novels A Dance to the Music of Time (6) |
| LAST | The ___ Battle seventh and final novel in the fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis |
| DEATHLY | Harry Potter And The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hallows, final novel in the series by J.K. Rowling, published in 2007 (7) |
| DEATHLYHALLOWS | Harry Potter and the ____ , final novel in the Harry Potter series published in 2007 (7,7) |
| DORSET | English county in which parts of the TV series Broadchurch were filmed (6) |
| GERMINAL | The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, often considered his masterpiece |
| THELASTBATTLE | Final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series (3,4,6) |
| YISFORYESTERDAY | 25th (and final) novel in Sue Grafton's "alphabet series" of mysteries (4 wds.) |
| SPINAL | ____ Tap, fictional English heavy metal rock band that debuted in a 1984 mockumentary film (6) |
