| HIRO | ___ Protagonist (of Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash") |
| METAVERSE | Virtual-reality world depicted in Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" |
| ROOT | Enoch in Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" novels |
| CONNOR | Sarah _; protagonist of the Terminator series of films (6) |
| STEELE | Anastasia ___, protagonist of "Fifty Shades of Grey" |
| REACHER | Jack _, protagonist of a series of novels by Lee Child (7) |
| ONO | Masuji ___ (protagonist of Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World) |
| FLEMING | Henry __, protagonist of The Red Badge of Courage (7) |
| LAST | Tony ___, protagonist of 1934 Evelyn Waugh novel A Handful of Dust (4) |
| PATEL | Pi ___ (Protagonist of 2001 novel Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel) |
| MAC | Little ___ (protagonist of Punch-Out!!) |
| RENTON | Mark ___, protagonist of the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh |
| FOLEY | Axel _, protagonist of "Beverly Hills Cop' |
| GALE | Dorothy _, protagonist of the Oz novels by L Frank Baum (4) |
| NADIA | Fearless _______, protagonist of Hunterwali |
| OHARA | Scarlett ___, protagonist of Gone with the Wind (5) |
| BLOMKVIST | Mikael ___, protagonist of Stieg Larsson's Millennium books (9) |
| DRAPER | Don ___, protagonist of the TV series Mad Men (6) |
| NEAL | "Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon" author Stephenson |
| REILLY | Ignatius J. ___, protagonist in "A Confederacy of Dunces" |
