| Author of "The Closing of the American Mind" | 54 |
| Author of "The Cotter's Saturday Night" | 53 |
| Author of "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" | 55 |
| Author of "The Fall of the Horse of Usher"? | 53 |
| Author of "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" | 56 |
| Author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | 55 |
| Author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | 62 |
| Author of "The Jury" and "The Arraignment" | 62 |
| Author of "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" | 57 |
| Author of "The Unfinished Revolution": 1979 | 53 |
| Author of "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" | 56 |
| Author of "Underworld" and "Mao II" | 55 |
| Author of "What Do You Say After You Say Hello?" | 58 |
| Author of "Why Women Should Rule the World" | 53 |
| Author of "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" | 58 |
| Author of 1980's "The Annotated Gulliver's Travels" | 69 |
| Author of 1998's "Diplomacy for the Next Century" | 63 |
| Author of a 1952 novel published in full in Life magazine | 57 |
| Author of a book "As Dictated to Barbara Bush" | 56 |
| Author of a classic novel about treasure hunters: Abbr. | 55 |
| Author of sci-fi's "War With the Newts" | 53 |
| Author of the "Black Widowers" series of mysteries | 60 |
| Author of the "Earth's Children" series | 53 |
| Author of the 1899 children's book "The Wouldbegoods" | 67 |
| Author of the 1922 best-seller "Etiquette" | 52 |
| Author of the 1940 autobiography "Wings on My Feet" | 61 |
| Author of the 1970 best-seller “The Female Eunuch” | 58 |
| Author of the 1974 novel found in the starts of the starred answers | 67 |
| Author of the 1986 Booker Prize winner "The Old Devils" | 65 |
| Author of the 2006 best seller "Culture Warrior" | 58 |
| Author of the 2009 best-seller "Have a Little Faith" Mitch | 68 |
| Author of the 20th century's best-selling non-religious book | 64 |
| Author of the 3,000-page "The Civil War: A Narrative" | 63 |
| Author of the award-winning 1999 novel "In America" | 61 |
| Author of the book whose title is circled in the grid | 53 |
| Author of the children's book "If Roast Beef Could Fly" | 69 |
| Author of the children's book "The Blue Ribbon Day" | 65 |
| Author of the children's book "The Saga of Baby Divine" | 69 |
| Author of the cookbook "Louisiana Real & Rustic" | 62 |
| Author of the fictional novella "The Pension Grillparzer" | 67 |
| Author of the memoir "One Soldier's Story" | 56 |
| Author of the short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" | 66 |
| Author of the story collection "Little Birds" | 55 |
| Author portrayed in the miniseries "The Lost Boys" | 60 |
| Author referenced by Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street" | 60 |
| Author Steinhauer with the 2009 best seller "The Tourist" | 67 |
| Author who covered the Spanish-American War for New York newspapers | 67 |
| Author who doesn't maintain an Academy Awards fansite | 57 |
| Author who said "My job is to give kids the creeps" | 61 |
| Author who was once Claudia Johnson's press secretary | 57 |
| Author who was the title subject of the Best Picture of 1937 | 60 |
| Author who wrote "Demian" under the pen name Emil Sinclair | 68 |
| Author who wrote "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards" | 68 |
| Author who wrote an acclaimed profile of Frank Sinatra for Esquire | 66 |
| Author who wrote that "hell is other people" | 54 |
| Author who, with his friends, famously formed the Merry Pranksters | 66 |
| Author whose landmark work began as "Catch-18" | 56 |
| Author whose masterpiece only started selling well after he died | 64 |
| Author with a fan site called "Into the Wardrobe" | 59 |
| Author/illustrator who used the pseudonym Ogdred Weary | 54 |
| Auto accessory often mounted on the windshield, for short | 57 |
| Auto additives co. that hints at this puzzle's theme | 56 |
| Auto company participating in parliamentary procedure? | 54 |
| Auto company whose name is Latin for "listen" | 55 |
| Auto sponsor of Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" | 64 |
| Auto with a "9" in almost all its model names | 55 |
| Autobiography by jewel thief Walter T. Shaw (with Mary Jane Robinson) | 69 |
| Autobiography subtitled "Songs My Mother Taught Me" | 61 |
| Automaker with the slogan "Born from jets" | 52 |
| Automaker with the slogan "The Power to Surprise" | 59 |
| Automaker with the tagline "Vorsprung durch Technik" | 62 |
| Automobile pitched by Groucho Marx on "You Bet Your Life" | 67 |
| Automotive part ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| Autos featured in the John Wayne film "Big Jake" | 58 |
| Autos overhyped when introduced on "E Day" in 1957 | 60 |
| Autumnal event so called because it helps hunters kill their prey | 65 |
| Ava Gardner's "The Sun Also Rises" costar | 55 |
| Ava Gardner's co-star in "The Sun Also Rises" | 59 |
| Avenged Sevenfold "A Little ___ of Heaven" | 52 |
| Avenged Sevenfold "___ All Things Will End" | 53 |
| AVERAGE ONE IN RUSSIA IS 200, COME LIVE HERE IT IS FINE | 55 |
| Average place to buy a laptop? (Radiohead / Kraftwerk) | 54 |
| Avia competitor, and the bottom line of this puzzle's theme | 63 |
| Aviarists love this "Blurred Lines" singer! | 53 |
| Aviarists love this "I Knew You Were Trouble" singer! | 63 |
| Aviarists love this "Livin' La Vida Loca" singer! | 63 |
| Aviator who said "the lure of flying is the lure of beauty" | 69 |
| Avoided walking or taking public transportation, in Manhattan | 61 |
| Avoiding part of your workout? (this one's a triple) | 56 |
| Award for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" | 52 |
| Award for "The Curse of the Starving Class" | 53 |
| Award for Best Novel won three times by Dick Francis | 52 |
| Award for Lynn Nottage's play "Ruined" | 52 |
| Award for Outstanding Performance Under Pressure, e.g. | 54 |
| Award for which winners get to give a five-word acceptance speech | 65 |
| Award handed out by Jimmy Kimmel and Lebron James in 2007 | 57 |
| Award named for its recipients' performance locale | 54 |
| Award named for the venue of its honorees' performances | 59 |
| Award that Don Draper won on TV's "Mad Men" | 57 |
| Award won by Lance Armstrong in 2005 for the third straight year | 64 |