| WHITETEETH | and 24dn, 2000 novel by Zadie Smith (5,5) |
| TEETH | and 24dn, 2000 novel by Zadie Smith (5,5) |
| WHITE | and 24dn, 2000 novel by Zadie Smith (5,5) |
| SWINGTIME | 1936 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; novel by Zadie Smith (5,4) |
| AUTOGRAPHMAN | The ___, 2002 novel by Zadie Smith (9,3) |
| ONBEAUTY | Novel by Zadie Smith published in 2005 (2,6) |
| DEBUTNOVEL | Zadie Smith's "White Teeth" or Stephen King's "Carrie," e.g. |
| ZED | Character debuted by Zadie Smith? |
| FRAUD | "The ___" (2023 best-seller by Zadie Smith) |
| WEHITTEETH | Zadie Smith book about boxers who specialize in punching people in the mouth? |
| THEGIRAFFE | see 24ac, 2000 novel by Alexander McCall Smith |
| SLAMMERKIN | 2000 novel by Emma Donoghue |
| KINGS | Which Cambridge college was founded by King Henry VI and counts among its alumni Robert Walpole, John Maynard Keynes. Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith? (5) |
| ERSATZ | Substitute took a seat after hesitation by Zadie initially (6) |
| ESSAYS | Some Zadie Smith works |
| ESSAY | Zadie Smith's "Dance Lessons for Writers," for example |
| GLENIFFER | And 24dn Range of hills and country park south of Paisley (9,5) |
| PARADIGM | And 24dn Radical change in one's assumptions or thinking (8,5) |
| MOUNTAIN | and 24dn, Rowan, Pompeii's unexpected visitor (8,3) |
| GREAT | and 24dn, Take Oxford course (a bit of Browning?) for a jaundiced view of America (5,5) |
