| EMILE | Zola who wrote the short story collection "For a Night of Love" |
| ROC | Bird in the story collection "One Thousand and One Nights" |
| CATHY | Comic strip with the 1998 collection "I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore" |
| EANNIEPROULX | Who wrote the short story on which Ang Lee based his 2005 film Brokeback Mountain? (1,5,6) |
| RUE | Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story, The Murders In The ... Morgue (3) |
| PROULX | Annie, author who wrote the short story Brokeback Mountain (6) |
| PROSPERMERIMEE | French novelist who wrote the short stories Colomba, Carmen and La Venus d'Ille (7,7) |
| ALEXA | "Wake word" for a popular Amazon device |
| HENGE | Ending with "Stone" for a British monument |
| BON | What's "good" for a trip to Paris? |
| SEDER | A Hebrew ritual for a night of a passover |
| DJSET | Collection of songs for a night of dancing |
| KARENRUSSELL | Author of the short-story collection "Orange World and Other Stories" |
| MONETS | "The Magpie" and "The Wheat Field," for two |
| MTIDA | Sacred peak in the "Iliad" and "Aeneid," for short |
| HIGHCAMP | Where mountaineers stay for a night of outrageous behaviour (4,4) |
| THY | Word between "love" and "neighbor" |
| WOE | "The sweetest joy, the wildest ___ is love": Pearl Bailey |
| BOCCACCIO | Giovanni, 14thcentury Italian poet who authored the short story collection Decameron (9) |
| VINCENT | Mr. Lam, Canadian author of the short story collection at #33- |
