| Author who won the 1986 Peace Prize | 35 |
| Author who wore "a warm knit"? | 40 |
| Author who wrote about frontier life | 36 |
| Author who'll never make a name for himself | 47 |
| Author who's rarin' to write? | 37 |
| Author whose main character is Jack Reacher | 43 |
| Author whose novels span 6,000 years | 36 |
| Author whose only published novel won a Pulitzer | 48 |
| Author Wister of "The Virginian" | 42 |
| Author with a Moscow park named after him | 41 |
| Author with a museum in Richmond, Virginia | 42 |
| Author Zora Neale ___ of the Harlem Renaissance | 47 |
| Author ___ de Cervantes Saavedra | 32 |
| Author's "jackpot" | 32 |
| Author's letter to an editor | 32 |
| Author's secret collaborator | 32 |
| Author-film critic: 1909–55 | 34 |
| Author-turned-radio personality? | 32 |
| Author/illustrator Richard of the Busytown books | 48 |
| Authoritative expression of permission | 38 |
| Authority giving specific orders | 32 |
| Authority on Mayan culture: 1849–1922 | 44 |
| Authority on sayings of Mohammed | 32 |
| Authority whose fame was in the cards | 37 |
| Authorize two bros' get-together? | 37 |
| Authors of "Middletown . . . " | 40 |
| Authors' submissions (abbr.) | 32 |
| Auto accessory for wintry weather | 33 |
| Auto accessory on a welcome sign? | 33 |
| Auto additive with a red oval logo | 34 |
| Auto body company with old "uh-oh" ads | 48 |
| Auto company headquartered in Munich | 36 |
| Auto company partnering with Fiat | 33 |
| Auto dealer's agreement, at times | 37 |
| Auto denter in a supermarket parking lot | 40 |
| Auto design now, vis-Ã -vis the 1950s? | 40 |
| Auto designed by Ferdinand Porsche | 34 |
| Auto discontinued in 1974 and relaunched in 2004 | 48 |
| Auto engine nickname based on its shape, briefly | 48 |
| Auto financing factor, initially | 32 |
| Auto founded by an aircraft company | 35 |
| Auto gizmo that talks, for short | 32 |
| Auto honcho after a night on the town? | 38 |
| Auto insurer's request: Abbr. | 33 |
| Auto introduced for the '55 model year | 42 |
| Auto loan defaulter's comeuppance | 37 |
| Auto loans and credit card balances | 35 |
| Auto marque of the 1980s-'90s | 33 |
| Auto mechanic's report, part 1 | 34 |
| Auto mechanics with superpowers? | 32 |
| Auto once available in Torch Red | 32 |
| Auto part often found along the road | 36 |
| Auto part you shouldn't tamper with | 39 |
| Auto payment default consequence | 32 |
| Auto performance factor, informally | 35 |
| Auto pioneer Olds' middle name | 34 |
| Auto race with numerous checkpoints | 35 |
| Auto safety feature, redundantly | 32 |
| Auto security device hawked in infomercials | 43 |
| Auto seen much too much in an auto shop | 39 |
| Auto seen way too much in an auto shop | 38 |
| Auto service department offerings | 33 |
| Auto supplier for the Swedish royal family | 42 |
| Auto that sounds like a belly button | 36 |
| Auto whose griffin logo was recently discontinued | 49 |
| Auto with Teletouch transmission | 32 |
| Auto's shock absorbers, springs, etc. | 41 |
| Auto-care brand with a reptilian name | 37 |
| Auto-racing city, with "Le" | 37 |
| Autobahn between Potsdam and Berlin | 35 |
| Autobiographer of "Speak, Memory," 1951 | 49 |
| Autobiographical book by Adm. Byrd | 34 |
| Autobiographical book by Carrie Fisher | 38 |
| Autobiographical short story by Edgar Allan Poe | 47 |
| Autobiography by the three men in a tub? | 40 |
| Autobiography of ... Yogi Berra? | 32 |
| Autobiography of a humorist's wife? | 39 |
| Autobiography of a soused romantic? | 35 |
| Autobiography written with Kurt Loder | 37 |
| Autodialed electioneering tactic | 32 |
| Autodom's Beetle is one, slangily | 37 |
| Autodom's Sable or Grand Marquis, for short | 47 |
| Autograph "Sign In ___" | 33 |
| Autograph candy for the Halloween visitor? | 42 |
| Autograph collecting aid, for short | 35 |
| Autograph hound's target (Abbr.) | 36 |
| Automaker based in Rüsselsheim, Germany | 42 |
| Automaker David Dunbar Buick, by birth | 38 |
| Automaker headquartered in Trollhattan, Sweden | 46 |
| Automaker headquartered in Turin | 32 |
| Automaker that introduced heated front seats | 44 |
| Automaker that started as a bicycle company | 43 |
| Automaker who produced the Flying Cloud | 39 |
| Automaker with a lightning bolt logo | 36 |
| Automaker's concern, briefly | 32 |
| Automated answering machine base | 32 |
| Automated device in a bowling alley | 35 |
| Automated method of handling information: abbr. | 47 |
| Automated online script, as it were | 35 |
| Automated phone-system component | 32 |