| BELLOW | U.S. novelist's loud cry (6) |
| FROTHY | Fine U.S. novelist followed by Yankee that's lightweight (6) |
| ERNEST | --- Hemingway, U.S. novelist (6) |
| MAILER | Norman ---, U.S. novelist (6) |
| UPDIKE | John, U.S. novelist who created the character Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom (6) |
| SEBOLD | Alice ___, U.S. novelist who wrote the novel The Lovely Bones published in 2002 (6) |
| TARZAN | Jungle hero created by U.S. novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs (6) |
| AUSTER | Paul, U.S. novelist and essayist whose books include the New York Trilogy (6) |
| LUDLUM | Robert, U.S. novelist who created the character Jason Bourne (6) |
| LETHEM | U.S. novelist Jonathan, author of Motherless Brooklyn, published in 1999 (6) |
| ALCOTT | U.S. novelist, abolitionist and feminist, born 1832, who sometimes used the pen name A.M. Barnard (6) |
| LOUISAMAYALCOTT | U.S. novelist who wrote Little Women (6,3,6) |
| TOMCLANCY | U.S. novelist who created Jack Ryan (3,6) |
| WRATH | Anger in U.S. novelist, it's said (5) |
| ERNESTHEMINGWAY | Angry new themes I suspect for U.S. novelist (6,9) |
| MARKTWAIN | U. S. novelist and humorist (4,5) |
| BETROTH | Put money on U.S. novelist in pledge (7) |
| KESEY | Ken, U.S. novelist and countercultural figure (5) |
| STEEL | Tough quality in romantic U.S. novelist (5) |
| PRATE | Chatter with fine U.S. novelist (5) |
