| THOMASMALORY | Warwickshire-born poet (1405 - 71), who wrote or compiled Le Morte d'Arthur (6,6) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of a Warwickshire-born author who wrote a number of novels including The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Middlemarch (5) |
| ATLAS | Studied or compiled in cartography, general name for a collection of maps (5) |
| PROSEEDDA | Anthology written or compiled by Snorri Sturluson |
| MALORY | Thomas, English author who wrote Le Morte d'Arthur (6) |
| WHITE | Author who adapted Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur into The Once and Future King quartet and wrote the study on falconry The Goshawk (5) |
| HOLY | ___ grail; item that features in the Le Morte d'Arthur tales (4) |
| SIR | English writer, author of Le Morte D'arthur (3,6,6) |
| THOMAS | English writer, author of Le Morte D'arthur (3,6,6) |
| MALORYS | ___ "Le Morte d'Arthur" |
| SIRGALAHAD | "Le Morte d'Arthur" figure |
| TENNYSON | Alfred Lord, poet whose poems include Morte d'Arthur and Ulysses (8) |
| ELLERYQUEEN | Pseudonym of US crime writers Frederic Dannay (1905-82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-71), who also wrote as Barnaby Ross (6,5) |
| HOFFA | Jimmy ___, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1957-71 who disappeared in 1 |
| TAMERLANE | First ruler of the Timurid Empire who died in 1405 (9) |
| INVERSE | How Shakespeare wrote or just the opposite (7) |
| SPENSER | Edmund wrote -- or writes -- in service without immorality (7) |
| STEWART | 1st Earl of Buchan, also known as the Wolf of Badenoch (1343-1405) |
| ALEXANDER | 1st Earl of Buchan, also known as the Wolf of Badenoch (1343-1405) |
| MCDV | 1405 |
