| What this crossword's theme is? | 35 |
| Unlike a milksop | 16 |
| Tall, dark and handsome | 23 |
| Oozing testosterone | 19 |
| Not boyish | 10 |
| Macholike | 9 |
| Like rugby and fisticuffs | 25 |
| Like Rocky or Rambo | 19 |
| Hairy-chested, stereotypically | 30 |
| Butch | 5 |
| Brave and resolute | 18 |
| Guys' night out? | 20 |
| Like Lake Mead | 14 |
| Like reservoirs | 15 |
| Like Lake Nasser | 16 |
| Like Ghana's Lake Volta | 27 |
| It's not natural to swim in | 31 |
| Mead, e.g. | 10 |
| "Death in Venice" author | 34 |
| Educator Horace | 15 |
| "The Magic Mountain" author | 37 |
| Jazz flutist Herbie | 19 |
| "Buddenbrooks" author | 31 |
| Horace or Thomas | 16 |
| "The Magic Mountain" author Thomas | 44 |
| Thomas or Horace | 16 |
| Writer Thomas | 13 |
| Author of "The Magic Mountain" | 40 |
| "Buddenbrooks" novelist Thomas | 40 |
| "Buddenbrooks" novelist | 33 |
| "Blinded by the Light" singer | 39 |
| 'Death in Venice' author | 32 |
| "Death in Venice" author Thomas | 41 |
| Thomas who wrote "The Magic Mountain" | 47 |
| Singer-songwriter Aimee | 23 |
| Jazzman Herbie | 14 |
| Herbie of jazz | 14 |
| Felix Krull's creator | 25 |
| Director of "Marty" | 29 |
| Author of "Death in Venice" | 37 |
| 1929 Literature Nobelist | 24 |
| "Doctor Faustus" novelist | 35 |
| ''The Magic Mountain'' author | 45 |
| ''Buddenbrooks'' author | 39 |
| Education reformer Horace | 25 |
| Director of ''Marty'' | 37 |
| Delbert ___, film director | 26 |
| Certain act | 11 |
| American educator reformer Horace | 33 |
| American education reformer | 27 |
| "The Magic Mountain" novelist | 39 |
| "The Case for Public Schools" author | 46 |
| "Joseph and His Brothers" novelist | 44 |
| "Doktor Faustus" author | 33 |
| "Buddenbrooks" Nobel Prize winner | 43 |
| 'Til Tuesday's Aimee | 28 |
| 'Death in Venice' writer | 32 |
| ''Buddenbrooks'' novelist | 41 |
| Tony-winning producer Theodore | 30 |
| Tonio Kröger's creator | 29 |
| Thomas who wrote "Death in Venice" | 44 |
| Thomas or Herbie | 16 |
| Singer/songwriter Aimee | 23 |
| Singer Aimee | 12 |
| School reformer Horace | 22 |
| Rock's Manfred -- | 21 |
| Pop singer Manfred ___ | 22 |
| Pop singer Aimee | 16 |
| Nobelist Thomas | 15 |
| Nobelist in Literature: 1929 | 28 |
| Nobel Prize author: 1929 | 24 |
| Manfred of rock | 15 |
| Literature Nobelist: 1929 | 25 |
| Literary Nobelist: 1929 | 23 |
| Jazz's Herbie | 17 |
| Jazz flautist Herbie | 20 |
| Horace, Thomas or David | 23 |
| Horace ___, famed educator | 26 |
| Herbie or Horace | 16 |
| Heinrich or Horace | 18 |
| Grammy-winning Aimee | 20 |
| German novelist Thomas | 22 |
| Flutist Herbie | 14 |
| Flute tooter Herbie | 19 |
| Educator or novelist | 20 |
| Educator Horace ___ | 19 |
| Education pioneer | 17 |
| Director Delbert or Daniel | 26 |
| Director Delbert ___ | 20 |
| Director Delbert | 16 |
| Dave of Tin Pan Alley | 21 |
| Creator of the Buddenbrooks | 27 |
| Buddenbrooks' creator | 25 |
| Buddenbrooks author | 22 |
| Author of the novel "Doctor Faustus" | 46 |
| Author of "Felix Krull" | 33 |
| Aimee who sings | 15 |
| Aimee or Herbie | 15 |
| 19th-century educator Horace | 28 |
| "Voices Carry" singer | 31 |