| Austrian-made pistol | 20 |
| Austrian-Yugoslav river | 23 |
| Austro-Hungarian river | 22 |
| Austronesian language | 21 |
| Aut. opposite | 13 |
| Auteur's art | 16 |
| Auteur's field | 18 |
| Auteur's order | 18 |
| Auteur's starting point | 27 |
| Auteur's work | 17 |
| Auth. Conrad | 12 |
| Auth. of "Ash Wednesday" | 34 |
| Auth. of many "Bartlett's" quotations | 51 |
| Auth. of many quotations | 24 |
| Auth. of many quotes? | 21 |
| Auth. of many snarky blog comments | 34 |
| Auth. submissions | 17 |
| Auth. unknown | 13 |
| Auth. who died in Samoa | 23 |
| Auth.'s submissions | 23 |
| Authentic | 9 |
| Authentic indie rocker Juliana? | 31 |
| Authentic looking word on some signs | 36 |
| Authentic old coin? | 19 |
| Authentic parrot? | 17 |
| Authentic, in Thuringia | 23 |
| Authentic: Ger. | 15 |
| Authenticate | 12 |
| Authenticate officially | 23 |
| Authenticate, in a way | 22 |
| Authenticate, legally | 21 |
| Authenticated | 13 |
| Authenticated "Death of a Salesman" manuscript? | 57 |
| Authenticated: Abbr. | 21 |
| Authenticates | 13 |
| Authenticating mark | 19 |
| Authenticating symbol | 21 |
| Authentication of a will | 24 |
| Authenticator | 13 |
| Authenticator of a sort | 23 |
| Authenticity | 12 |
| Authenticity, for short | 23 |
| Author | 6 |
| Author -- du Maurier | 20 |
| Author -- Higgins Clark | 23 |
| Author -- Neale Hurston | 23 |
| Author -- Stanley Gardner | 25 |
| Author --- Neale Hurston | 24 |
| Author A. Conan ___ | 19 |
| Author Adler | 12 |
| Author Ahmed and others | 23 |
| Author Alan | 11 |
| Author Albert | 13 |
| Author Albom | 12 |
| Author Alcott | 13 |
| Author Alec | 11 |
| Author Aleichem | 15 |
| Author Alex | 11 |
| Author Alexander | 16 |
| Author alias | 12 |
| Author Alice or H.H. | 20 |
| Author Alice ___ Miller | 23 |
| Author Alighieri | 16 |
| Author Alistair | 15 |
| Author Allende | 14 |
| Author Amado | 12 |
| Author Ambler | 13 |
| Author among whose pen names was Theo LeSieg | 44 |
| Author Amy | 10 |
| Author Amy's family squabble? | 33 |
| Author Anaïs | 15 |
| Author analyzed by Sartre | 25 |
| Author Anatole | 14 |
| Author Anatole ___ | 18 |
| Author and actor take on a builder | 34 |
| Author and animal rights activist Cleveland | 43 |
| Author and atom enders | 22 |
| Author and film critic James | 28 |
| Author and former New York Times public editor Daniel | 53 |
| Author and game show panelist Fannie | 36 |
| Author and longtime professor of writing at Princeton | 53 |
| Author and Nobel Laureate Gordimer | 34 |
| Author and screenwriter James | 29 |
| Author Andersen | 15 |
| Author André | 15 |
| Author André and family | 26 |
| Author Andreyev, called "The Edgar Allan Poe of Russian Literature" | 77 |
| Author Andric | 13 |
| Author Angelou | 14 |
| Author Anita | 12 |
| Author Anita ___ | 16 |
| Author anonymously | 18 |
| Author Anya | 11 |
| Author Anya and others | 22 |
| Author Anya ___ | 15 |
| Author Arendt | 13 |
| Author Arnold, for short | 24 |
| Author Asch | 11 |
| Author Asimov | 13 |
| Author Asquith of children's books | 38 |