| LAPHAM | William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas ___ |
| HOWELLS | Writer William Dean ___ |
| DEAN | Author of the 1885 novel The Rise Of Silas Lapham, William _ Howells (4) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the author of Silas Marner (5) |
| GEORGEELIOT | Pen name of the female author of "Silas Marner" |
| BAH | The favorite expression of silas marner |
| TOILETELIOT | "The ___" (bathroom edition of Silas Marner, etc.?) |
| DEANE | Silas ___, emissary of the Continental Congress to France |
| SALAMIS | Mince 7/12 of Silas Marner's sausages (7) |
| RUSSIANREVOLUTION | Conflict that heralded the end of the Tsars and the rise of the Soviet Union (7,10) |
| MCNEILL | Historian William H. ___, author of "The Rise of the West" |
| INDUSTRIAL | - Revolution; period of development characterised by the rise of steam power and mass production of goods that saw protests by the Luddites (10) |
| TRAN | Actress Kelly Marie of the "The Last Jedi" and "The Rise of Skywalker" |
| SPRING | A fountainhead; the rise of the sea to its extreme height; or, a beginning, birth, dawn or freshest time, hence the vernal season of growth, when buds and plants bloom and burst forth (6) |
| WELLS | Author, "H G", who wrote about the rise of machines in his iconic novel The War of the Worlds (5) |
| WEGG | Silas ___, one-legged character in the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend (4) |
| ARI | Actress Graynor of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty |
| MARNER | Eliot's miser Silas ___ |
| CLAY | Nina and Ava were both in love with Silas ___. |
| NEESON | Liam, the voice of Qui-gon Jinn in The Rise Of Skywalker (6) |
