| BARAKA | United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934) |
| HEINLEAN | United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988). |
| HENRYLAWSON | Australian author of poems and short stories,1867-1922; park in Drummoyne (5,6) |
| SWINBURNE | Author of Poems and Ballads (9) |
| ALACRITY | Speed that racial conflict over toy ends (8) |
| ALLTHEWAY | Movie and play about LBJ: 3 wds. |
| ASCH | United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957). |
| ASIMOV | United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992) |
| WOUK | United States writer (born in 1915). |
| GIBRAN | United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931). |
| ZINN | 'A People's History of the United States' writer Howard |
| THOREAU | United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) (7) |
| SHIRLEYMACLAINE | Actress and dancer born in 1934 noted for her interest in mysticism and reincarnation (7,8) |
| MACNEICE | Louis ---, Belfast-born writer of poems such as Snow (1935) |
| CLARE | Known as the Peasant Poet, author of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery and The Shepherds Calendar who spent his last 26 years in an asylum (5) |
| TENNYSON | Alfred ?, author of poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist (8) |
| IWXTSPRONAOI | Part of poem and German dance in S Africa |
| BLACKORWHITE | Song by Michael Jackson about racial harmony, released in 1991 (5,2,5) |
| NEILSIMON | US writer of the 1963 romantic comedy play Barefoot in the Park (4,5) |
| DEANKOONTZ | Prolific US writer of thrillers, including Odd Thomas (2003) and Demon Seed (1973) |
