| NONAME | Rapper and activist with a book club dedicated to authors of color and abolitionist texts |
| ETAL | And others, when referring to authors of academic books (2,2) |
| MEEK | Rapper and activist who collaborates with Drake on the single Going Bad, ___ Mill (4) |
| MARIASHRIVER | Journalist and activist with two Emmy awards |
| MALCOLMX | Civil rights activist with a Harlem thoroughfare named after him |
| ECOWARRIOR | Green activist with a cow, error I corrected (3-7) |
| ROYALTY | Money paid to author of book on the Windsors? (7) |
| STEVENSON | Sent ovens around to author of Treasure Island (9) |
| HUE | Sights and sounds: This word is a synonym of "color" and a homonym of "Hugh" |
| ETIOLATES | Deprives of color and strength |
| SPORTSCASTERS | Suppliers of color and highlights? |
| CHROME | ___ yellow is a shade of the color, and it is a lead compound. (You can also fill in the blank with the name of a well-known web browser.) |
| LOPEZ | "Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for." She began her TV career in 1990 as a Fly Girl on In Living Color, and she performed at the 2021 inauguration of U.S. Pres |
| OPRAH | Celeb with a book club |
| REESE | Actress Witherspoon with a book club |
| OUIDA | A Dog of Flanders author who was an animal rights activist with some 30 canine companions (5) |
| CLARITY | One of the four C's of diamonds (along with cut, color, and carat) |
| GOLDENBROWN | Ideal toast color, and a hint to the ends of 17-, 24-, |
| CHRISTIE | The Mousetrap creator who wrote The A. B. C. Murders, And Then There Were None and The Body in the Library ; one of the best-selling authors of all time (8) |
| GROSSMITH | George and Weedon, authors of the novel The Diary of a Nobody (9) |
