| KINCAID | "Annie John" novelist Jamaica ___ |
| JAMAICA | With 8-Across, "Annie John" novelist |
| ANTIGUA | Island setting of Jamaica Kincaid's book "Annie John" |
| BUCHAN | John, Prester John novelist (6) |
| MORTIMER | John --, novelist whose works include 'Paradise Postponed' (8) |
| GREEN | John -; novelist who wrote The Fault in Our Stars (5) |
| GALSWORTHY | John -; novelist whose trilogy The Forsyte Saga earned him the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature (10) |
| STEINBECK | John -; novelist who wrote about characters George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men (9) |
| INN | DuMaurier's "Jamaica ___" |
| OMAR | World hurdling champion from Jamaica ___ McLeod |
| ESTATES | Jamaica ___, N.Y. (childhood home of Donald Trump) |
| SPANISH | A former capital of Jamaica, _ Town (7) |
| DAPHNEDUMAURIER | Jamaica Inn novelist (6,2,7) |
| CALICOJACK | English pirate captain born John Rackham executed in Port Royal, Jamaica, in 1720 (6,4) |
| DUMAURIER | Daphne - -; novelist who wrote Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and My Cousin Rachel (2,7) |
| OCHO | -- Rios, Jamaica |
| PLUMPOSITIONS | Ambassadorship to Jamaica, et al. |
| RESORTS | Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, and Bahamas |
| ISL | Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, or Grand Bahama: abbr. |
| KSTON | Capital of Jamaica [black] |
