| Updike offering | 15 |
| Thackeray product | 17 |
| Steinbeck work | 14 |
| Source for a movie, sometimes | 29 |
| Scott creation | 14 |
| Prose work | 10 |
| Potboiler, often | 16 |
| Penny dreadful or shilling shocker | 34 |
| P.D. James product | 18 |
| Orwell's "1984" or Clarke's "2010" | 62 |
| Not an autobiography | 20 |
| New and strange | 15 |
| Movie source | 12 |
| Medium for Melville | 19 |
| Many a self-published book | 26 |
| Ludlum genre | 12 |
| Long work of fiction | 20 |
| London production | 17 |
| Literary product | 16 |
| King creation | 13 |
| Jeff Farro band ___ American | 28 |
| It's pure fiction | 21 |
| Hugo contender | 14 |
| Heller offering | 15 |
| eBook category | 14 |
| Dumas output | 12 |
| Drabble offering | 16 |
| Breaking new ground | 19 |
| Bellow work | 11 |
| Bellow specialty | 16 |
| Bellow offering | 15 |
| Austen product | 14 |
| "The Catcher in the Rye," e.g. | 40 |
| "Portnoy's Complaint," e.g. | 41 |
| "Nana," for one | 25 |
| "Lord Jim" or "Lucky Jim" | 45 |
| "Catch-22" or "Mila 18" | 43 |
| Original thought | 16 |
| It's never been thought of before | 37 |
| Plot? | 5 |
| Innovative thought | 18 |
| Fiction writer | 14 |
| Cornwell or Clancy, e.g. | 24 |
| "Billy Budd," e.g. | 28 |
| Long short story | 16 |
| Short book | 10 |
| "Animal Farm," for one | 32 |
| Wharton's "Old New York," e.g. | 44 |
| Short story's big brother | 29 |
| More than a short story | 23 |
| King's "The Library Policeman," e.g. | 50 |
| Extended short story | 20 |
| Boccaccio tale | 14 |
| "The Old Man and the Sea," for one | 44 |
| "Breakfast at Tiffany's," for one | 47 |
| "Billy Budd", for one | 31 |
| "Billy Budd," for one | 31 |
| "A Christmas Carol," for one | 38 |
| Whim-wham | 9 |
| Squirting flower, say | 21 |
| Newness | 7 |
| New or strange thing | 20 |
| Cainophobe's fear | 21 |
| Nine-day devotion | 17 |
| Series of repeated Catholic prayers | 35 |
| Repeated Catholic prayer | 24 |
| Catholic devotion | 17 |
| Nine-day prayer ritual | 22 |
| Nine days' devotion | 23 |
| Roman Catholic devotion | 23 |
| Religious prayer | 16 |
| Recitation of prayers | 21 |
| Period of prayer | 16 |
| Nine-day period of prayer | 25 |
| Nine-day Catholic prayer | 24 |
| Nine days of prayer | 19 |
| Church prayers | 14 |
| Catholic prayer recitation | 26 |
| Roman Catholic period of prayer | 31 |
| Protracted prayer | 17 |
| Nine-day series of Catholic prayers | 35 |
| Nine-day religious devotion | 27 |
| Nine days of services | 21 |
| Multi-day prayer | 16 |
| Multi-day devotion | 18 |
| Certain grouping of prayers | 27 |
| Roman Catholic devotions | 24 |
| Nine-day devotions | 18 |
| Devotions | 9 |
| Church devotions | 16 |
| Catholic prayer periods | 23 |
| ___ Sad, Yugoslav city | 22 |
| ___ Sad (Serbian city) | 22 |
| __ Sad, Serbia | 14 |
| ___ Sad, Serbia | 15 |
| ___ Sad (Serbia's second-largest city) | 42 |
| ___ Sad (city on the Danube) | 28 |
| ___ Sad (capital of Vojvodina) | 30 |
| Sweetheart: Sp. | 15 |
| Spanish sweetheart | 18 |