| TALESE | Gay in literature |
| CAMPY | Gay, in a way |
| ENOLA | Leona joins Gay in bomber |
| APPAREL | It's "gay" in "Deck the Halls" |
| IFEELSO | "I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud; Or a robin on a wing; But ... gay in a melancholy way; That i |
| ZOOLOGY | Confusion and disorder regularly look gay in this study (7) |
| DAFFYD | Little Britain's 'only gay in the village', ... Thomas (6) |
| HOLLER | "___ If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church" (BET documentary) |
| SULU | Longtime character revealed to be gay in 2016's "Star Trek Beyond" |
| VELVETRAGE | Anger from "growing up gay in a straight man's world," per a 2005 book |
| TABHUNTER | 1950s heartthrob who came out as gay in 2005 |
| BOBDYLAN | Blowin' in the Wind singer-songwriter who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 2016: 2 wds. |
| TWAIN | Mark in literature, and two in history |
| TONI | American author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 (4,8) |
| MORRISON | American author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 (4,8) |
| FORSTER | Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years, the novelist who wrote A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India (7) |
| YEATS | W B ___(1865-1939), Irish poet and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 (5) |
| RUSSELL | Bertrand ___ (1872 - 1970) mathematician, philosopher, etc, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 (7) |
| BELLOW | 21 Saul ___ (1915 - 2005), Quebec-born novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 (6) |
| HEANEY | Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 (6,6) |
