Complete Clue List
Across
1. Popular yuletide novel, Charles Dickens (1,9,5)
9. Novelist and journalist, "The Forgiven", Lawrence ___
10. Publisher's trade name, such as Puffin
11. Bill Bryson's book on Britain, "___ From a Small Island"
12. Followers of religion that gives high status to former Emperor Haile Selassie
13. Blocks; gets in the way
14. Herman Wouk's unstable Captain in "The Caine Mutiny"
15. T H White's charming book about the young Arthur, "The Sword in the ___"
17. Commemorated with an inscription.(Vb., past tense)
20. Virginia Woolf's 1929 feminist essay, "A Room ___" (2,4,3)
22. Debut novel by Amy DuBois Barnett "If I ___ the World"
23. Maurice Sendak's children's book "___ the ___ Kitchen" (2,5)
24. Grisham novel (2002), protagonist Ray Atlee "The ___"
25. Humorous story by Paul Coates (2023) (7,6,2)
Down
1. Dickens et al, in 1852 Christmas issue of "Household Words", "___ by the Christmas Fire" (1,5,2,7)
2. English author, "The Darling Buds of May" (1,1,5)
3. A suspense writer often keeps a surprise ___ (2,7)
4. Novella by Dickens, "___Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home" (3,7,2,3)
5. Author's pen-names (pl.)
6. A great way to relax; 'a good book and a ___' (tea) (Brit idiom)
7. Sherlock Holmes short story, "The Adventure of the ___ Squire"
8. Real name of Lewis Carroll, Charles ___ (8,7)
14. Hunter Davies' 2001 bio of the Beatles' early lives, "The ___"
16. US Southern novelist (1925-64), Flannery ___
18. Romanian-French playwright, "The Rhinoceros", Eugene ___
19. Final novel in series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly ___"
21. Several books on the ___ Marbles exist, including by Dorothy King