| Fictional book |
Universal |
02 Sep 2025 |
| Book hotel, ignoring photos essentially |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Aug 2025 |
| New - book (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
22 Aug 2025 |
| Work of written fiction |
Commuter |
14 Aug 2025 |
| Work of fiction (5) |
Mirror Quick |
07 Aug 2025 |
| Unorthodox book (5) |
Mirror Cryptic |
07 Aug 2025 |
| A book about love after end of Revolution (5) |
|
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| Romance book (5) |
|
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| Roman a clef |
|
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| Steinbeck offering |
|
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| Volume penned by Fielding? |
|
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| Way to make love by the book (5) |
|
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| Coward, possibly, digesting beginning of Victorian literary work |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
10 Jun 2025 |
| Medium for Melville or McCarthy |
New York Times Mini |
07 Jun 2025 |
| Something new by way of romance (5) |
|
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| Fiction work (5) |
|
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| Book is set in Vatican City during Christmas |
|
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| Fictitious story of book length (5) |
|
|
| Newbery-winner "The One and Only Ivan," for one |
|
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| "Invisible Man" or "Little Women" |
New York Times Mini |
19 May 2025 |
| As a read, it can't be all enveloping (5) |
|
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| Christmas clothes, very new (5) |
|
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| "Emma," e.g. |
Premier Sunday |
11 May 2025 |
| No part of a travelogue is fiction (5) |
|
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| Show soprano vellum inscribed with work they've written |
|
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| Work of fiction |
Puzzler Backwords |
20 Apr 2025 |
| Book that may win a Booker Prize |
|
|
| Fictitious story presenting a picture of real life (5) |
|
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| Point at which there's a love entanglement in the book (5) |
|
|
| "A ___ Love Story" (Ashley Poston book) |
|
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| Writer's work |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Apr 2025 |
| A book! That's different (5) |
|
|
| Colleen Hoover book, e.g. |
Commuter |
03 Apr 2025 |
| "Little Dorrit" is one |
|
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| Full-length work of fiction (5) |
|
|
| Written work of fiction |
Commuter |
29 Mar 2025 |
| A man gets five in a book (5) |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
The Times Concise |
17 Mar 2025 |
| Book by last woman, about love (5) |
|
|
| Unorthodox book |
Mirror Cryptic |
11 Mar 2025 |
| Work of fiction |
Mirror Quick |
11 Mar 2025 |
| Book of ?Five in lone adventures" (5) |
|
|
| Book of Five: 'Noel Comes Round' (5) |
|
|
| Steinbeck or Salinger offering |
|
|
| Story that's original and striking (5) |
|
|
| The No of NaNoWriMo |
|
|
| "The Sentence," for one |
Universal |
01 Mar 2025 |
| Writer's work |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Feb 2025 |
| Fresh and original, a ... idea |
|
|
| Something in which the plot might thicken |
|
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| Original literary work (5) |
|
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| Book about the fifth man (5) |
|
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| Fiction book (5) |
|
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| Strikingly original |
USA Today |
18 Jan 2025 |
| Story in book form (5) |
|
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| It could be a volume in Christmas wrapping (5) |
|
|
| Nancy Mitford's Christmas Pudding, e.g. |
The Telegraph Plusword |
25 Dec 2024 |
| Extended work in prose (5) |
|
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| A work of fiction by a Pole about love |
|
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| New book? (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
19 Dec 2024 |
| Book for boy about five (5) |
|
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| A book for Christmas, when about five (5) |
|
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| Fictitious story book (5) |
|
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| This book could never be trite (5) |
|
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| Work of fiction which may become a best-seller |
|
|
| Fictitious book (5) |
|
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| Story book |
|
|
| New and unusual |
Universal |
02 Nov 2024 |
| New literary work (5) |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
Commuter |
31 Oct 2024 |
| New romance? (5) |
|
|
| Bookstore buy, perhaps |
|
|
| Of a new kind |
|
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| Original piece of literature (5) |
|
|
| Only half a month left for literary work |
|
|
| Book-length fictional story (5) |
|
|
| Book-length story |
Puzzler Backwords |
04 Oct 2024 |
| Like a very original book, aptly |
Universal |
03 Oct 2024 |
| Work of fiction |
Commuter |
30 Sep 2024 |
| New way to make wild love (5) |
|
|
| Stephen King's work |
|
|
| Month the Spanish produce literary work |
The Times Cryptic |
23 Sep 2024 |
| Fresh fiction (5) |
|
|
| Penguin paperback |
|
|
| Book of fiction |
Newsday |
10 Sep 2024 |
| Book Five in Christmas setting (5) |
|
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| Five featuring in Christmas book (5) |
|
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| Author's work |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Aug 2024 |
| Work of fiction |
Commuter |
03 Aug 2024 |
| Book such as "Take My Hand" |
USA Today |
21 Jul 2024 |
| Book for five when Christmas comes around (5) |
|
|
| New |
Mirror Classic |
15 Jul 2024 |
| No brother of Odin's first love in the book (5) |
|
|
| Could it be entitled 'The Start of New Love Ruined'? (5) |
|
|
| New heart for slovens, possibly (5) |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
Newsday |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Mystery or romance, for example |
|
|
| Original book (5) |
|
|
| Entertainment of a new kind? (5) |
|
|
| Book of fiction |
Newsday |
17 Jun 2024 |
| Extended fictional work (5) |
|
|
| Fictional work |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Jun 2024 |
| New love going wrong in book |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Jun 2024 |
| Original piece of fiction |
|
|
| A romance (book) (5) |
|
|
| Figure a chap out as new (5) |
|
|
| A new book? (5) |
|
|
| Prose narrative |
|
|
| Fictional work |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 May 2024 |
| New book |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 May 2024 |
| Tale of ultimate passion and wild love (5) |
|
|
| "To Kill a Mockingbird" or "Mockingjay" |
New York Times Mini |
13 May 2024 |
| New book (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
08 May 2024 |
| Month with the Spanish work of fiction (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
27 Apr 2024 |
| Month with the Spanish work of fiction (5) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
27 Apr 2024 |
| Author's work, perhaps |
Universal |
18 Apr 2024 |
| Fresh or new |
Mirror Classic |
15 Apr 2024 |
| A book with a fictitious story |
|
|
| Tale of illicit love at the Nag's Head (5) |
|
|
| Heretofore unknown |
|
|
| Written about love in the North |
|
|
| Unseen until now |
|
|
| Fresh and strange |
|
|
| "Emma," "Zoya," or "Sula" |
|
|
| New or unusual (5) |
|
|
| Book for a boy about five |
|
|
| Book Leon V (5) |
|
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| Original |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Feb 2024 |
| An original narrative? (5) |
|
|
| Innovative literary work? |
The Sun Two Speed |
28 Feb 2024 |
| New way to make love (by the book) (5) |
|
|
| New publication (5) |
|
|
| Book of fiction |
Mirror Tea Time |
16 Feb 2024 |
| Work of prose (5) |
|
|
| Coward's very strange (5) |
|
|
| Major work of fiction |
New York Times Mini |
07 Feb 2024 |
| Work of fiction |
Commuter |
06 Feb 2024 |
| Unprecedented |
Universal |
21 Jan 2024 |
| Paperback |
|
|
| Quintet featuring in Christmas book (5) |
|
|
| What an author writes (5) |
|
|
| Fictional work |
Universal |
16 Jan 2024 |
| Unusual romance |
|
|
| Innovative literary work? (5) |
|
|
| At this point, love is said to be fresh |
|
|
| Violent eruption, after it's removed-unusual (5) |
|
|
| "Don Quixote" or "Jane Eyre" |
Commuter |
22 Dec 2023 |
| PlusWord No 568 |
|
|
| Book of fiction |
Newsday |
03 Dec 2023 |
| New and original (5) |
|
|
| Verse in Christmas book (5) |
|
|
| Strikingly new |
|
|
| Book of fiction |
Newsday |
27 Nov 2023 |
| Work of fiction like "Frankenstein" |
|
|
| Bookstore buy, perhaps |
|
|
| New-fashioned |
New York Times |
17 Oct 2023 |
| "The Great Gatsby" or "Fahrenheit 451," e.g. |
|
|
| "Great Expectations" or "Jane Eyre," e.g. |
|
|
| Stephen King's work |
|
|
| Book of fiction |
Newsday |
05 Sep 2023 |
| "Mrs. Dalloway" or "The Hours" |
LA Times Daily |
01 Sep 2023 |
| Month the Spanish must produce literary work |
The Times Cryptic |
31 Jul 2023 |
| New book |
The Times Cryptic |
18 Jul 2023 |
| Book I've unwrapped in the middle of Christmas |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 May 2023 |
| Chandler creation |
Wall Street Journal |
11 May 2023 |
| Very entertained by Christmas story |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Mar 2023 |
| Book of fiction |
Newsday |
28 Feb 2023 |
| Bestselling book, perhaps |
|
|
| "Song of Solomon," for one |
LA Times Daily |
02 Feb 2023 |
| Long work of fiction |
Newsday |
30 Jan 2023 |
| Original |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Jan 2023 |
| Work of fiction |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Oct 2022 |
| A long story? |
The Guardian Quick |
04 Oct 2022 |
| Stephen King's work |
|
|
| New and unusual |
New York Times |
27 Sep 2022 |
| Unusual number ready in Bulgaria for revolution |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 Sep 2022 |
| Writer's work |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Aug 2022 |
| Inventive |
Premier Sunday |
07 Aug 2022 |
| New |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Jul 2022 |
| Unusual formation of geese in winter season |
The Times Cryptic |
13 Jul 2022 |
| Coward possibly concealing start of violent story |
|
|
| Toni Morrison's 'Beloved,' for one |
New York Times |
20 Jun 2022 |
| Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” for one |
New York Times |
20 Jun 2022 |
| 'Harlem Shuffle,' for example |
USA Today |
02 May 2022 |
| Kazuo Ishiguro creation |
USA Today |
23 Mar 2022 |
| It is missing from violent piece of fiction |
Irish Times Crosaire |
08 Mar 2022 |
| Candidate for a Booker Prize |
New York Times |
28 Dec 2021 |
| Inventive |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Dec 2021 |
| Fresh |
The Times Concise |
03 Oct 2021 |
| "Frankenstein" or "Dracula" |
Universal |
02 Oct 2021 |
| Fresh head of lettuce after fifteen days? |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
Universal |
05 Jun 2021 |
| Work created by Louise Erdrich or Susan Abulhawa, e.g |
The Washington Post Sunday |
23 May 2021 |
| New love going wrong in book |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 May 2021 |
| Fictional work |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 May 2021 |
| Rice product |
Wall Street Journal |
15 May 2021 |
| Dickens work |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 May 2021 |
| Christmas wrapping very new |
|
|
| Writer's work |
Thomas Joseph |
10 Apr 2021 |
| 'Dream of the Red Chamber,' e.g |
USA Today |
07 Apr 2021 |
| "Song of Solomon" or "The Color Purple" |
Universal |
29 Mar 2021 |
| New, original |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Mar 2021 |
| Book of fiction |
Newsday |
01 Mar 2021 |
| Sidney Sheldon's creation say |
|
|
| Number cyclically permuting 0 and 1? |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Dec 2020 |
| . Book of Leviticus about to be reviewed |
|
|
| “Main Street” or “Tobacco Road” |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Nov 2020 |
| 'The City We Became,' e.g |
USA Today |
12 Nov 2020 |
| Book first of vacations in time for Christmas |
|
|
| Book of fiction |
Irish Times Simplex |
20 Oct 2020 |
| Knight has strange love for book |
The Sun Two Speed |
23 Sep 2020 |
| Work of fiction |
The Times Concise |
20 Sep 2020 |
| Author's work |
|
|
| 26-Across, for one |
Universal |
31 Jul 2020 |
| 'To Kill a Mockingbird' or 'The Maltese Falcon' |
New York Times |
13 Jul 2020 |
| Best-selling work of fiction, say |
|
|
| New; book |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Jul 2020 |
| Original volume Fielding pens? |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Jul 2020 |
| New; book |
The Times Concise |
15 May 2020 |
| "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, for one |
|
|
| New book |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 May 2020 |
| Many a book club selection |
USA Today |
20 Apr 2020 |
| New |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Apr 2020 |
| New number by Dizzy Love |
|
|
| Never encountered before |
The Washington Post |
07 Mar 2020 |
| Never encountered before |
LA Times Daily |
07 Mar 2020 |
| Against getting into Yuletide romance? |
|
|
| Many a fiction book |
Premier Sunday |
05 Jan 2020 |
| New verse used in Christmas |
|
|
| It is missing from violent piece of fiction |
Irish Times Crosaire |
05 Dec 2019 |
| Christmas centred around very short work of fiction |
|
|
| It's a long story |
Universal |
17 Oct 2019 |
| Original |
The Washington Post |
05 Sep 2019 |
| Original |
LA Times Daily |
05 Sep 2019 |
| Never-before seen |
New York Times |
23 Aug 2019 |
| Fictional work |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Aug 2019 |
| Highly original |
Newsday |
05 Jun 2019 |
| Work of fiction which may become a best-seller |
|
|
| Any of Grafton's 'alphabet series' |
USA Today |
28 Mar 2019 |
| Man penning very short fictional work |
|
|
| Original, having first half of month on lake |
|
|
| Original |
|
|
| Any of Grafton's "alphabet series" |
|
|
| Never-before seen |
|
|
| It's a long story |
|
|
| Original |
|
|
| Many a Kindle download |
USA Today |
05 Nov 2018 |
| Work of fiction |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Sep 2018 |
| 'Dracula' or 'Frankenstein,' e.g |
The Washington Post Sunday |
26 Aug 2018 |
| Fresh |
New York Times |
19 Aug 2018 |
| Unfamiliar |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
20 Jul 2018 |
| Book with a plot |
Family Time |
11 Jun 2018 |
| Groundbreaking |
Wall Street Journal |
21 May 2018 |
| New sort of book |
|
|
| Michener's 'Alaska' or 'Hawaii' |
USA Today |
27 Apr 2018 |
| Story's terribly violent! Avoid it |
|
|
| Unusual story |
|
|
| Fresh |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Feb 2018 |
| Many a Kindle download |
|
|
| Unfamiliar |
|
|
| Fresh |
|
|
| Groundbreaking |
|
|
| Michener's "Alaska" or "Hawaii" |
|
|
| Fictitious prose work |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Nov 2017 |
| Unheard-of |
New York Times |
22 Oct 2017 |
| Man penning volume, a work of fiction |
|
|
| Longish work of fiction |
Universal |
18 Aug 2017 |
| Fictional work |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Jun 2017 |
| Unusual paperback, maybe |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Apr 2017 |
| James Joyce work |
The Washington Post |
27 Mar 2017 |
| James Joyce work |
LA Times Daily |
27 Mar 2017 |
| Refreshing piece of prose |
|
|
| Fresh |
Newsday |
23 Feb 2017 |
| Work of fiction |
The Guardian Quick |
11 Feb 2017 |
| Unheard-of |
|
|
| Longish work of fiction |
|
|
| Many a book club selection |
|
|
| Original |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Dec 2016 |
| Coward's boxing very unorthodox |
|
|
| Freshly interesting |
Universal |
17 Oct 2016 |
| Agatha Christie output |
The Washington Post |
06 Sep 2016 |
| 'Vatican during Christmas' — a written account |
|
|
| 'Emma' or 'Ulysses' |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Jun 2016 |
| Untried |
New York Times |
26 May 2016 |
| King creation |
LA Times Daily |
22 May 2016 |
| Cutting-edge |
New York Times |
14 May 2016 |
| Book half a month online |
|
|
| "Mila 18" or "QB VII" |
USA Today |
30 Mar 2016 |
| Original verse during Christmas |
|
|
| Book; new |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Mar 2016 |
| Original verse during Christmas |
|
|
| King creation |
|
|
| Freshly interesting |
|
|
| Untried |
|
|
| Stephen King output |
USA Today |
13 Nov 2015 |
| Fictional work |
USA Today |
23 Mar 2015 |
| Elie Wiesel's 'Dawn,' but not 'Night' |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
06 Mar 2015 |
| Book at the end of October for the Spanish |
Irish Times Crosaire |
16 Jan 2015 |
| "Mockingjay," e.g. |
|
|
| Elie Wiesel's "Dawn," but not "Night" |
|
|
| "Lord Jim" or "Lucky Jim" |
|
|
| Never before seen |
Jonesin |
01 Jan 2015 |
| Fictional work |
|
|
| Stephen King output |
|
|
| Unprecedented / work of fiction |
|
|
| Book of the month starts to excite librarians |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
|
|
| New |
|
|
| Highly original |
|
|
| "Catch-22," e.g. |
|
|
| Stephen King creation |
|
|
| Best-seller list entry |
|
|
| Unprecedented |
|
|
| It's no short story |
|
|
| Breaking new ground |
|
|
| Great American ___ |
|
|
| It's pure fiction |
|
|
| Jeff Farro band ___ American |
|
|
| Like new and unusual music |
|
|
| Source for a movie, sometimes |
|
|
| Book of fiction |
|
|
| Source for a movie, often |
|
|
| Bestseller list entry |
|
|
| Original |
|
|
| Not an autobiography |
|
|
| Unusual paperback? |
|
|
| Source for a movie, often |
|
|
| Original |
|
|
| Fresh |
|
|
| Cooper creation |
|
|
| Fictional work |
|
|
| Never-before-seen |
|
|
| Best-seller list entry |
|
|
| One of Jane Austen's six |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
|
|
| It's a long story |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
|
|
| Reason for an advance |
|
|
| Orwell's "1984" or Clarke's "2010" |
|
|
| It's no short story |
|
|
| Fresh |
|
|
| Rice product |
|
|
| One of Jane Austen's six |
|
|
| Steel product? |
|
|
| Fresh |
|
|
| Christie specialty |
|
|
| Film source, sometimes |
|
|
| Dime buy, once |
|
|
| Ludlum genre |
|
|
| Fictional work |
|
|
| King creation |
|
|
| Innovative |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
|
|
| Long work of fiction |
|
|
| Innovative |
|
|
| Potboiler, often |
|
|
| Work of fiction |
|
|
| Movie source |
|
|
| Movie source |
|
|
| Potboiler, often |
|
|
| Borders buy |
|
|
| Unique |
|
|
| Romance, e.g. |
|
|
| It's a long story |
|
|
| Not previously seen |
|
|
| It could lead to an advance |
|
|
| "Catch-22" or "Mila 18" |
|
|
| "Catch-22" or "Mila 18" |
|
|
| Borders buy |
|
|
| Not previously seen |
|
|
| Steel product? |
|
|
| Fictional work |
|
|
| London production |
|
|
| "The Catcher in the Rye," e.g. |
|
|
| Hitherto unknown |
|
|
| King's work |
|
|
| Innovative |
|
|
| Trendsetting |
|
|
| Unhackneyed |
|
|
| John Grisham work |
|
|
| Atypical |
|
|
| Not copied |
|
|
| Fresh |
|
|
| "Lord Jim" or "Lucky Jim" |
|
|
| "The Secret Life of Bees," e.g. |
|
|
| Not copied |
|
|
| James Michener's "The ___" |
|
|
| Reason for an advance |
|
|
| Wouk work |
|
|
| P. D. James product |
|
|
| New |
|
|
| Reason for an advance |
|
|
| "Gone with the Wind" or "Marjorie Morningstar" |
|
|
| Trendsetting |
|
|
| King or Queen book, e.g. |
|
|
| Wouk work |
|
|
| New |
|
|
| Fictional work |
|
|
| It's a long story |
|
|
| Clancy creation |
|
|
| Innovative |
|
|
| Original |
|
|
| Not old hat |
|
|
| Unprecedented |
|
|
| New |
|
|
| Steinbeck work |
|
|
| Work of Barth |
|
|
| Original |
|
|
| Imaginative |
|
|
| Fresh |
|
|
| "Bag of Bones," for one |
|
|
| Amazon.com offering |
|
|
| Imaginative |
|
|
| "Emma"is one |
|
|
| Wouk work |
|
|
| Dime ___ |
|
|
| P.D. James product |
|
|
| Prose work |
|
|
| Different |
|
|
| Bellow specialty |
|
|
| Unusual |
|
|
| Hugo contender |
|
|
| See 32 Down |
|
|
| Austen work |
|
|
| Medium for Melville |
|
|
| What 54 Across is |
|
|
| Penny dreadful or shilling shocker |
|
|
| Stone ware |
|
|
| New |
|
|
| Atypical |
|
|
| "Portnoy's Complaint," e.g. |
|
|
| Fresh |
|
|
| New and strange |
|
|
| Original |
|
|
| Bellow offering |
|
|
| Updike offering |
|
|
| Iberia or Hawaii |
|
|
| Thackeray product |
|
|
| Bellow work |
|
|
| Drabble offering |
|
|
| Austen product |
|
|
| Heller offering |
|
|
| Newfangled |
|
|
| "Nana," for one |
|
|
| Dumas output |
|
|
| Literary product |
|
|
| Writing medium |
|
|
| "Dombey and Son." |
|
|
| Offbeat. |
|
|
| "Exodus," for one. |
|
|
| Gift for a reader. |
|
|
| eBook category |
|
|
| "S. P. Q. R.," for instance. |
|
|
| Romance. |
|
|
| Reading matter. |
|
|
| Unprecedented. |
|
|
| Pulitzer Prize item. |
|
|
| "Battle Cry," for instance. |
|
|
| "Don Quixote," for instance. |
|
|
| Item of summer entertainment. |
|
|
| "Katherine," for example. |
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| "The Stepmother," for instance. |
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| Unusual. |
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| Reader's choice. |
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| Fresh. |
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| Original. |
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| Literary form. |
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| New. |
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| Mystery, for one. |
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| Out of the ordinary |
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| Scott creation |
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| Many a self-published book |
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| Fiction form. |
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| "Sironia, Texas," for instance. |
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| "The Scapegoat," for example. |
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| Georges Simenon's forte. |
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