| AMATEUR | 'The --', 1899 novel by E.W. Hornung (7,9) |
| CRACKSMAN | 'The --', 1899 novel by E.W. Hornung (7,9) |
| AWKWARDAGE | The -, 1899 novel by Henry James |
| RAFFLES | Fictional gentleman thief created by E. W. Hornung (7) |
| HORNUNG | EW, author of the 1899 novel The Amateur Cracksman (7) |
| ARABS | The -----. a nomadic cricket team founded by E.W. Swanton (5) |
| FOMAGORDEYEV | 1899 novel by Maxim Gorky (4,8) |
| LOVEAND | 1899 novel by H G Wells (4,3,2,8) |
| MRLEWISHAM | 1899 novel by H G Wells (4,3,2,8) |
| LOVEANDMRLEWISHAM | 1899 novel by H G Wells |
| RESURRECTION | 1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy (12) |
| DARKNESS | 'Heart of -', 1899 novel by Joseph Conrad (8) |
| NESBIT | Author of the 1899 children's book "The Wouldbegoods" |
| SAMOA | It was split into two parts by the 1899 Treaty of Berlin |
| SCHNITZLER | Arthur, author of the 1899 one-act play The Green Cockatoo (10) |
| KATECHOPIN | US author of 1899 novel The Awakening (4,6) |
| CONRAD | Writer of the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness (6) |
| NIPPER | Dog featured in the 1899 painting His Master's Voice (6) |
| MASON | A E W ___, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers (5) |
| FEATHERS | The Four -; 1902 adventure novel by A. E. W. Mason (8) |
