| HARTLEY | LP ---, author of the 1953 novel The Go-Between |
| GRUBB | Davis, author of the 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter (5) |
| THEPASTISA | Famous quotation from L P Hartley's novel The Go-Between (3,4,2,1,7,7) |
| FOREIGNCOUNTRY | Famous quotation from L P Hartley's novel The Go-Between (3,4,2,1,7,7) |
| GOBETWEEN | "The ...", 1953 novel by LP Hartley (2-7) |
| UNNAMABLE | "The ...", 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett (9) |
| LONGGOODBYE | "The ... ...", 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler (4,7) |
| KRAKENJAMES | 'The ---', 1953 novel by John Wyndham (6,5) |
| LPHARTLEY | English author of novels including The Shrimp And The Anemone (1944) and The Go-Between (1953) (1,1,7) |
| NOYCE | Member of the 1953 expedition that made the first ascent of Everest who also wrote Mountains and Men (5) |
| RALPHELLISON | African-American author of Invisible Man winner of the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| PAST | 'The ___ is a foreign country' (L. P. Hartley The Go-Between (1953) prologue) (4) |
| MEDIATOR | 'The Go-Between': novel to admire or 'arid tome'? (8) |
| INGE | William, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play Picnic (4) |
| HUNT | Army officer whose leadership of the 1953 expedition to Mount Everest enabled Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to make the successful assault (4) |
| ADLER | Larry ___, harmonica-player who won an Oscar nomination for his work on the soundtrack of the 1953 film Genevieve |
| TATI | Jacques ___, director and star of the 1953 film Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (4) |
| NIKITA | First name of the 1953-1964 Soviet leader Khrushchev (6) |
| LIAISES | Acts as the go between |
| INTERMEDIARY | Expression used in popular English book The Go-Between |
