| SULA | Toni Morrison's second novel published in 1973 after The Bluest Eyes |
| AGNEW | US vice-president who resigned in 1973 after not contesting a charge of tax evasion (5) |
| LIFEONMARS | BBC TV series about a policeman who goes back in time to 1973 after a car accident (4,2,4) |
| MANTICORE | Second novel (published in 1972) in Canadian author Robertson Davies' series The Deptford Trilogy, The ___ |
| BELAMI | Guy de Maupassant's second novel, published in 1885 |
| PECOLABREEDLOVE | Protagonist of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" |
| MORRISON | Toni ___ Nobel laureate behind works like The Bluest Eye and Home who passed away in 2019 |
| TONIMORRISON | Her "The Bluest Eye" was the April 2000 pick |
| NOVEL | Book such as The Color Purple or The Bluest Eye |
| TONI | The Bluest Eye (1970); the author's first name (4) |
| BOOK | "The Bluest Eye" or "White Teeth" |
| EYE | "The Bluest ___" (Toni Morrison's debut novel) |
| HONORARY | The ___ Consul, novel by Graham Greene published in 1973 (8) |
| THEHONORARYCONSUL | Novel by Graham Greene, published in 1973 (3,8,6) |
| THEGULAG | History and memoir by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the first volume of which was published in 1973 (3,5,1 |
| SEATTLE | According to a 1969 Perry Como hit song, the bluest skies you've ever seen are where? (7) |
| ROAD | Cincinnati street in which Sethe lives in Toni Morrison's Beloved (9,4) |
| STONE | Cincinnati street in which Sethe lives in Toni Morrison's Beloved (9,4) |
| BLUE | Cincinnati street in which Sethe lives in Toni Morrison's Beloved (9,4) |
| BLUESTEYE | Toni Morrison's debut novel, with "The" |
