| CANNERYROW | John Steinbeck novel set among sardine-packing factories: 2 wds |
| RUSTBELT | U.S. area of abandoned factories (2 wds.) |
| CANNERIES | Sardine-packing plants |
| MASSPRODUCING | Objective of big factories (2 words) |
| THEGRAPESOFWRATH | John Steinbeck novel set during The Great Depression (3,6,2,5) |
| GRAPESOFWRATH | John Steinbeck novel set in the Great Depression, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (6,2,5) |
| TORTILLAFLAT | 1933 John Steinbeck novel set in California (8,4) |
| EASTOFEDEN | John Steinbeck novel set in the Salinas Valley |
| ROW | Waterfront street in Monterey that lends its name to the title of a John Steinbeck novel set in the |
| CANNERY | ___ Row, Steinbeck novel set in Monterey (7) |
| THESNOW | Novel by Paul Gallico set among the Essex marshes (3,4,5) |
| GOOSE | Novel by Paul Gallico set among the Essex marshes (3,4,5) |
| ORISON | Prayer of saint to be set among the stars (6) |
| SHANE | 1953 film set among Wyoming homesteaders |
| LISTENERS | Play set among cruise ships getting audience (9) |
| TREEHOUSE | Play-area set among branches (4,5) |
| TRAPEZE | A piano set among trees, I hear, for swingers' bar (7) |
| LIMITING | Checking one college set among the heather |
| CALLISTO | Nymph transformed into a bear and set among the stars as Ursa Major (8) |
| TETCHY | Irritable companion after film is set among territory's extremists (6) |
