| DROOG | Word for a gang member in Nadsat, the fictional language of English author Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange (1962) (5) |
| NEWSPEAK | The fictional language of Oceania in George Orwell's novel 1984 (8) |
| GOON | Headgear for a gang member (4) |
| ORANGE | 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork _ (6) |
| NATO | Mil. alliance with official languages of English and French |
| THEWARDEN | First of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire novels by English author Anthony Trollope, published in 1855 (3,6) |
| HORROR | In the Russian-based Nadsat language of A Clockwork Orange, “____show” means “excellent” |
| TROLLOPE | His Barset novels were made into The Barchester Chronicles series, English author Anthony ... |
| ACLOCKWORKO | Novel that features the language Nadsat |
| FRY | Charles Burgess, a master of all sports |
| LAPINE | Fictional language of rabbits, created by Richard Adams for his novel Watership Down (6) |
| AGATHA | First name of English author of Murder on the Orient Express (6) |
| ENDERBY | The protagonist of a quartet of comic novels written by Anthony Burgess under the pen name Joseph Kell (7) |
| ROME | European city that the writer Anthony Doerr called "a puzzle of astonishing complexity" |
| POSSE | American author goes round ship for a gang |
| HORNBY | Something that might be blown in the presence of English writer (6) |
| ELLISBELL | Pseudonym of English author Emily Bronte, under which she published her only novel (Wuthering Heights, 1847) (5,4) |
| HERRIOT | James ___, pen name of English author whose works include All Creatures Great and Small (1972) |
| CORDELIA | Cheerleader and Scooby Gang member in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8) |
| PIERS | "A Spell for Chameleon" author Anthony |
