| FARO | Card game mentioned in the novel "Show Boat" |
| FERBER | Edna, author of the novel Show Boat (6) |
| TEST | Hampshire river mentioned in the novel Watership Down (4) |
| BASE | Each of the four "stations" in a softball-like game mentioned in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (4) |
| ASSEMBLYROOMS | Bath's social facilities, mentioned in the novels of Austen and Dickens (8,5) |
| CRICKETGROUNDS | Since Australia lacks football fields, the game mentioned in 20-Across will be played on Melbourne's largest of these |
| POOL | Game mentioned by Rod Stewart in "Maggie May" |
| DECKTENNIS | Figure in Dickens novel shows game played on board |
| DEJAVU | A verse in Jude novel shows expression of earlier feelings (4,2) |
| TRISTRAMSHANDY | Novel shows remarkable artistry, including both text and writing style |
| INERTIA | A tinier novel shows laziness (7) |
| TIBBS | Virgil, character in the novel In the Heat of the Night (5) |
| PRIDE | "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." is the first sentence in the novel ___ and Prejudice |
| PROSPERO | A wizard in the novel 'The Face in the Frost' by John Bellairs (8) |
| NARRATOR | Holden Caulfield has this role in the novel The Catcher In The Rye (8) |
| ATHOS | One of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (5) |
| BRAM | Murnau's Nosferatu was the first, though unauthorised, film version of Dracula, the vampire created in the novel by ... Stoker |
| NEMO | Captain of the Nautilus in the novel 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (4) |
| ANNIEERNAUX | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature who described her prose in the novel "Les Armoires Vides" as "brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene" (October, 2022) |
| EMMA | Mr. Knightley's wife, in the novel of the same name |
