| REACHER | Jack -, Lee Child protagonist (7) |
| MOWGLI | The Jungle Book's child protagonist (6) |
| CLARA | Name of the child protagonist in most productions of the ballet The Nutcracker (5) |
| CARDRIVER | Jack Lee is behind the wheel (3-6) |
| JUSTIN | Brother of 39A whose birth name is Jack Lee in the Bay (6) |
| BADLUCK | 2007 novel by Lee Child (3,4,3,7) |
| ONESHOT | Novel in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series adapted into a film with Tom Cruise (3,4) |
| HARDWAY | The ___, 2006 novel by Lee Child (4,3) |
| WORTHDYINGFOR | 2010 novel by Lee Child about Jack Reacher meets the Duncans and solves an old case of a missing child: 3 wds. |
| ANDTROUBLE | 2007 novel by Lee Child (3,4,3,7) |
| ECHO | Burning; the fifth novel in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child (4) |
| DIETRYING | Second of the Jack Reacher novels written by Lee Child |
| NIGHTSCHOOL | 2016 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher joins a mission to find a soldier who's cut a deal with a terrorisst: 2 wds. |
| ECHOBURNING | 2001 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher helps a woman named Carmen: 2 wds. |
| FAIL | Without ___ 2002 novel written by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher helps Mary Ellen Froelich protect the Vice-President-Elect |
| BACK | Never Go ___ 2013 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher helps the commander of his old unit Major Susan Turner |
| GONE | ___ Tomorrow 2009 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher investigates the death of Susan Mark |
| ENEMY | The ___, 2004 novel by Lee Child (5) |
| PERSUADER | 2003 novel by Lee Child (9) |
| AFFAIR | The ___, 2011 novel by Lee Child (6) |
