| Usher family's creator | 26 |
| Upcoming Sylvester Stallone-directed biopic | 43 |
| U. S. storyteller | 17 |
| The Raven, poet | 15 |
| The Raven writer | 16 |
| The Mystery Writers of America award is named after him | 55 |
| “The Mystery of Marie Roget” author | 43 |
| The Gold Bug author | 21 |
| “The City in the Sea” poet | 34 |
| The Bells author | 19 |
| The Baltimore Ravens were named in his honor | 44 |
| The "P" in E.A.P. | 27 |
| Subject of the one-man play subtitled "Once Upon a Midnight" | 70 |
| Subject of a Richmond museum | 28 |
| “Some Words With a Mummy” writer | 40 |
| Rue Morgue's creator | 24 |
| Rue Morgue creator | 18 |
| Rue Morgue chronicler | 21 |
| Ravenous writer? | 16 |
| Raven-ous poet? | 15 |
| Raven poet | 10 |
| Raven maniac? | 13 |
| Raven man | 9 |
| Puzzle-theme mystery writer: 1809-1849 | 38 |
| Poet expelled from West Point | 29 |
| Orphaned author raised by the Allans | 36 |
| One of the Baltimore Ravens' mascots | 40 |
| Noted West Point expellee | 25 |
| Name of one of the three mascots of the Baltimore Ravens | 56 |
| Mystery-story pioneer | 21 |
| Mystery writer buried in Baltimore | 34 |
| Mystery pioneer | 15 |
| Mystery master | 14 |
| Miss Lee's creator | 22 |
| Master of horror | 16 |
| Macabre writer buried in Baltimore | 34 |
| Macabre writer | 14 |
| M. Valdemar's creator | 25 |
| Longfellow's contemporary | 29 |
| Literary Lenore's creator | 29 |
| Literary figure whose name is a letter short of something he wrote | 66 |
| Lenore's creator | 20 |
| Last name | 9 |
| Inspiration for Verne | 21 |
| Inspiration for a series of Price films | 39 |
| His supposed birthplace is across the street from the Boston Common | 67 |
| His name is a letter short of his description | 45 |
| His mystery admirer didn't appear graveside to toast his birthday in 2010 for the first time since 1949 | 107 |
| His epitaph reads "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'" | 67 |
| He wrote of Lenore | 18 |
| He wrote of "a midnight dreary" | 41 |
| He wrote "Ulalume" | 28 |
| He wrote "To Helen" and "For Annie" | 55 |
| He wrote "The Raven" | 30 |
| He wrote "The Bells" | 30 |
| He wrote "The Assignation" | 36 |
| He Ushered in mysteries? | 24 |
| He felled an Usher | 18 |
| Gothic giant | 12 |
| Founder of the detective fiction genre | 38 |
| Focus of a Richmond museum | 26 |
| Famously dark mystery author | 28 |
| Emerson called him "the jingle man" | 45 |
| Edgar Allan who wrote "The Gold-Bug" | 46 |
| Edgar Allan ___ | 15 |
| Edgar | 5 |
| Early whodunit writer | 21 |
| EAP word | 8 |
| E.A. ___ | 8 |
| Detective-story creator | 23 |
| Detective fiction pioneer | 25 |
| Crime-fiction pioneer | 21 |
| Creator of the detective C. Auguste Dupin | 41 |
| Creator of Roderick Usher | 25 |
| Creator of Arthur Gordon Pym | 28 |
| Chilling storyteller | 20 |
| C. Auguste Dupin's creator | 30 |
| Brooding author | 15 |
| Author with a museum in Richmond, Virginia | 42 |
| Author who inspired Verne | 25 |
| Author who inspired a Baltimore team's nickname | 51 |
| Author who influenced Verne | 27 |
| Author who influenced Conan Doyle | 33 |
| Author said to have influenced Hitchcock | 40 |
| Author of the stories collected in "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" | 83 |
| Author of "Ulalume" | 29 |
| Author of "The Purloined Letter" | 42 |
| Author of "The Gold-Bug" | 34 |
| Author of "The Cask of Amontillado" | 45 |
| Author of "Hop-Frog" | 30 |
| Author of ``The Raven'' | 31 |
| Author of The Raven | 22 |
| Author of The Gold Bug | 25 |
| Author of Annabel Lee | 24 |
| Author mentioned in the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" | 64 |
| Author expelled from West Point | 31 |
| Author Edgar Allan __ | 21 |
| Arthur ___, banker in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" | 85 |
| Annabel Lee penner | 21 |
| An NFL team is named for one of his works | 41 |