Complete Clue List
Across
1. First name of beloved Hogwarts headmaster in Rowlings' "Harry Potter" series
4. One of Dumas' Three Musketeers
7. ___ Lagerkvist received the 1951 Nobel Prize for Literature (do not add the diacritical mark)
8. Titular female character in Richard Blackmore's 1869 novel "___ Doone"
9. For whom are Beckett's Estragon and Vladimir waiting?
10. Comic book (then TV & movie) heroes Batman and Robin were known as the 'Dynamic ___'
11. In 1959, Laurie Lee had cider with whom?
14. Protagonist in Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" (or Elizabeth in "Pirates of the Caribbean")
17. Dexter's classical music loving police inspector (has made the transition to TV as well)
20. First name of Katniss' male team mate in Collins' "The Hunger Games"
23. Missing word from Kipling's "If": 'Or walk with Kings ? ___ lose the common touch'
24. Antagonist tiger's first name in Kipling's "The Jungle Book"
25. Voltaire's titular female character in his 1778 play or name of Poe's "The Sleeper"
26. Title of Woolf's Dalloway and du Maurier's Danvers for example
27. Nathaniel '____' Bumppo in Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans"
28. Wife of Leopold Bloom in Joyce's "Ulysses" or Ron Weasley's mother in "Harry Potter"
Down
1. Female character (family name) much admired by Sherlock Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
2. Pushkin wrote his play "___ Godunov" based on the Russian Tsar of the same name
3. Family name of Dashiell Hammett's hard-bitten private detective
4. According to Homer, Odysseus' loyal canine
5. Ibsen's iconic female character, the titular name of the play "___ Gabler"
6. First major character in Milton's "Paradise Lost" - a fallen angel.
12. Narrator of Ishiguro's "An Artist of the Floating World" (1986)
13. Shortening of '___ ___ a far, far better thing I do' (Dickens' Sydney Carton)
15. How Robbie Burns described the size of his "tim'rous beastie" (a mouse)
16. Egyptian mythology - goddess of the sky and heavens
17. Gardner's highly successful defense lawyer, Perry ___
18. Major male character in Mitchell's "Gone With The Wind" (first name only)
19. Moriarty to Holmes, Hook to Peter Pan, Javert to Jean Valjean: an _____
20. Key role in Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest", Miss___ (or a light refractor)
21. Key characters in Lee's "To Kill a Mocking Bird": Bob & Mayella ____
22. Fern's brother in White's "Charlotte's Web" (or 5th Olympic President, ____ Brundage)