| COLLEEN | The Thorn Birds novelist McCullough |
| SHEEPSTATION | Drogheda, the setting for Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds novel (5,7) |
| MCCULLOUGH | Colleen, Australian novelist noted for The Thorn Birds (10) |
| STANWYCK | Star of The Thorn Birds and Connie in The Colbys, Barbara ... (8) |
| SAGAS | "The Thorn Birds" and others |
| NAN | Actress Martin "The Thorn Birds" (2005) |
| SAGA | 'The Thorn Birds,' for one |
| WORDSWORTH | One of the Lake Poets whose works include the collection Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge), The Thorn and The World Is Too Much with Us (10) |
| TORMENTOR | Guru behind the eye of the storm and the thorn in one's side? (9) |
| ISON | "The dew ___ the thorn": Browning |
| NEER | "__ the rose without the thorn": Herrick |
| THORN | 'The --- Birds', novel by Colleen McCullough (5) |
| JIMSON | The thorn apple is called ___ ___ weed in the US (6) |
| GLASTONBURY | Somerset town, the thorn of which is Crataegus monogyna 'Biflora', will become world famous at the end of this month! (11) |
| APPLE | Datura stramonium is also known as the thorn ___ (5) |
| ACANTHA | Amanda can't have some of the thorn (7) |
| DATURA | Disparate genus that includes the thorn apple (6) |
| BIRDS | 'The ------ ', 1977 novel by Colleen McCullough featuring the character Father Ralph de Bricassart (5,5) |
| CULL | Reduce the number of animals McCullough has (4) |
| LYNX | Faint northern constellation whose fourthbrightest star is Alsciaukat (Arabic, 'the thorn') (4) |
