| ACHEBE | Chinua ___, author of 1958 novel Things Fall Apart (6) |
| CAPOTE | Truman ___, author of 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (6) |
| BEHAN | Brendan ___, author of 1958 autobiographical novel Borstal Boy (5) |
| JELLICOE | Ann ___, author of 1958 stage play The Sport of My Mad Mother (8) |
| CHINUAACHEBE | Nigerian author best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart |
| CHINUA | ___ Achebe, "Things Fall Apart" author |
| CENTRE | "Things fall apart; the ... cannot hold" (WB Yeats) |
| LARKIN | Surname of the family in HE Bates' 1958 novel The Darling Buds of May (6) |
| EXODUS | 1958 novel by Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel |
| FIRSTS | Novel things |
| DHARMA | 'The --- Bums', 1958 novel by Jack Kerouac (6) |
| LOLITA | 1958 novel by Nabokov featuring Humbert Humbert (6) |
| SUMMER | 'The -', 1958 novel by Rumer Godden set in France (9,6) |
| HAVANA | 1958 novel by Graham Greene (6) |
| APART | Chinua Achebe's classic novel, Things Fall ... |
| ANNJELLICOE | Author of 1958 stage play The Sport of My Mad Mother (3,8) |
| DELANEY | Shelagh ?, author of 1958 stage play A Taste of Honey (7) |
| CALEBWILLIAMS | "The Adventures of ... ...", subtitle of the William Godwin novel Things as They Are (5,8) |
| HALL | Willis ?, author of 1958 stage play Disciplines of War, later renamed The Long and the Short and the |
| YAMS | Crop in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" |
