| SOLOMON | ____ Northup, U.S. farmer who wrote about his time as a slave in the memoir Twelve Years A Slave (7) |
| NORTHUP | Solomon, author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave (7) |
| RANCHER | U.S. farmer (7) |
| GOVERNMENTBIOLOGIST | Farley Mowat's 1963 book Never Cry Wolf is about his time as a ___ ___ studying the decline of the Caribou population in northern Canada |
| CURRENS | Servus ____, a slave in a hurry, on the run, stock comedy character |
| ERNEST | ____ Hemingway, U.S. author who wrote about his time on safari in Green Hills Of Africa (6) |
| NIVEN | Actor who starred as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and wrote about his life in the memoir The Moon's a Balloon (5) |
| HELOT | A slave in ancient Greece was in the lotus position (5) |
| BATS | Mammals that save U.S. farmers billions in pest control |
| POPULISTPARTY | U.S. farmers' creation of 1891 |
| GENTLEMAN | -'s -; - farmer |
| STORM | A tempest accompanied by a gale of force 10, according to the grading of wind speeds devised by Sir Francis Beaufort during his time as a naval hydrographer (5) |
| GREY | Little - Rabbit; book series by Alison Uttley, author who described her youth in the memoir The Country Child (4) |
| JSALINGER | Writer featured in the memoir "Dream Catcher" |
| DURRELL | Author who wrote about his childhood growing up in Corfu in books including My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (7) |
| INSANIA | 2004 Peter Andre top ten single written about his time on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (7) |
| SOLOMONNORTHUP | Author of the 1853 memoir Twelve Years a Slave which was made into a Best Picture-winning movie: 2 wds. |
| CALIBAN | Savage slave in "The Tempest" (7) |
| PYNCHON | Thomas whose novel "Shadow Ticket" was his first in twelve years (October, 2025) |
| JOYCE | Author who wrote about his homeland Ireland in novels including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (5) |
