| SONTAG | American literary figure and political activist, d. 2004 - tangos (anag) (6) |
| NADINE | ___ Gordimer, South African writer and political activist, d. 2014 (6) |
| GEORGEPLIMPTON | Longtime New York literary figure and this puzzle's honoree |
| SHAW | Irish playwright and political activist, d. 1950 (4) |
| ONITSLASTLEGS | Worn out - listless tango (anag) (2,3,4,4) |
| TONGA | Pacific island; tango (anag.) (5) |
| REAGAN | 40th US president, d. 2004 (6) |
| JEWETT | American literary regionalist author Sarah Orne ___ |
| EDITOR | Literary figure found meandering in Detroit, mostly (6) |
| ROBERT | Literary figure celebrated on January 25th (6,5) |
| DANCES | Candles left out in arrangement for events with tangos (6) |
| GRAPHS | Statisticians' artworks in the form of charts, curves, diagrams, pies and plots that are more than mere lines and squiggles, but symbolic keys revealing data's hidden figures and meanings (6) |
| JUNGLE | Noted Swiss figure and the French in wilderness (6) |
| ELAZAR | Biblical figure and community in Gush Etzion (6) |
| NOBODY | Number, figure and cipher (6) |
| GRINCH | Literary figure whose "heart grew three sizes" over the course of his namesake book |
| GOETHE | The ego turned him into a German literary figure |
| MINUTE | Tango's given new place in dance record (6) |
| SIERRA | Tango's predecessor in the NATO phonetic alphabet (6) |
| MERLIN | Literary figure who ages backward |
