| THESCARLET | Adventure story set in the French Revolution, ... Pimpernel (3,7) |
| SAGACITY | Adventure story set in front of metropolis conveys wisdom (8) |
| TARZANOFTHEPEAS | Adventure story set on a jungle farm? |
| ANINDECENT | Colleen McCullough story set in a Malayan military hospital, ... Obsession (2,8) |
| MOLIERE | French writer's story set in the ruins of Rome (7) |
| RIP | 1819 Washington Irving story set in the Catskill Mountains whose title character sleeps for at least |
| SEVENYEARS | Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's true adventure story, ... In Tibet (5,5) |
| LEWWALLACE | American lawyer, Union general and governor of New Mexico Territory best known for his historical adventure story Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
| EMOLLIENT | Comforting story, set in confines of London, in revolutionary book |
| BERLINER | German short story set in European capital at the end of winter (8) |
| GEORGESDANTON | The first president of the Committee of Public Safety in the French Revolution |
| QUASIMODO | Name that might ring a bell in Victor Hugo's story set in 15th century Paris |
| GORMENGHAST | German involved with ghost story set in a fantastic castle (11) |
| ATELIER | Tear up with story set in studio (7) |
| MILIEU | Current story set in Greek character's environment (6) |
| AANDP | 1961 John Updike story set in a grocery store |
| GONDOLIER | Boatman story set in a Tolkien realm (9) |
| THEMARBLEFAUN | 1860 Nathaniel Hawthorne story set in Rome (3,6,4) |
| ARABY | James Joyce short story set in a bazaar |
| EVES | "___ Diary" (Mark Twain story set in Eden) |
