| AUTUMNAL | Regularly reading Camus, thus mentally connected to The Fall? |
| EDSA | The avenue in Manila (Philippines) which made concrete before the world the Filipinos' people power that led to the fall of Marcos from power |
| RAKES | Tends to the fall fall |
| TEEN | Young person regularly reading The Beano (4) |
| PENNANTRACE | Precursor to the Fall Classic |
| TROJANWAR | Conflict leading to the fall of Paris (6,3) |
| ANDRA | "Cheers to the Fall" singer Day |
| NIAGARA | A right, once more, to turn back to the Falls (7) |
| ODE | Regularly reading toddler's poem |
| ANTHONY | 20 / 13 whose leadership bid led to the fall of Margaret Thatcher (7,5) |
| HARVESTMOON | It's seen close to the autumn equinox |
| CASCADES | In case cads should turn to the falls (8) |
| MAN | Staff regularly reading magazines |
| LACHUTE | French title of the 1956 Albert Camus novel The Fall (2,5) |
| INASMUCHAS | It's to the extent that, up North, absurd Camus has the ending (8,2) |
| EXISTENCE | "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very __ is an act of rebellion": Camus (attributed) |
| ASMUCH | The same Camus novel, hard to follow (2,4) |
| SEEM | But above all, in order to be, never try to ____ , per Albert Camus |
| IDLENESS | "___ is fatal only to the mediocre" (Albert Camus) |
| SUMAC | A Camus, taken back to the wood (5) |
