| CLIVE | ___ Cussler, writer of adventure novels (5) |
| RIDER | H ___ Haggard, 19th-century writer of adventure novels (5) |
| MARKTWAIN | Make an impression on couple digesting a writer of adventure novels (4,5) |
| BUCHAN | Writer of adventures has a bunch translated (6) |
| ORCZY | Author of adventure novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel (5) |
| VERNE | Author of adventure novels including Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island (5) |
| DUMAS | French author who wrote a number of adventure novels including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After (5) |
| ANTHONYHOPE | Author of adventure novels including The Prisoner Of Zenda (7,4) |
| RIDERHAGGARD | H. ___, English author of adventure novels including King Solomon's Mines (5,7) |
| SABATINI | Rafael, early 20th-century Italian-British author of adventure novels (8) |
| BALLANTYNE | R M ___, author of adventure novels The Young Fur Traders and The Coral Island (10) |
| HAGGARD | Sir Henry Rider -; author of adventure novels including King Solomon's Mines and She (7) |
| CLUES | The 39 ___: series of children's adventure novels by various authors (5) |
| NIGHT | 1981 novel by Clive Cussler (5,5) |
| PROBE | 1981 novel by Clive Cussler (5,5) |
| ANDES | Setting of a Cussler novel |
| RAISE | _ The Titanic!, 1976 Clive Cussler novel adapted for a 1980 film (5) |
| RANSOME | Author of a series of adventure novels about characters including the Amazons, the Coots, the Hullabaloos and the Swallows |
| ZANEGREY | Prolific US author of Western adventure novels, including 1912's Riders of the Purple Sage (4,4) |
| PCWREN | Author of adventure stories about the French Foreign Legion (1,1,4) |
