Possible Clues:

• Nationality of Dashiell Hammett's 9?
• Living toy
• Like a film falcon
• Only Semitic language that's an official language of the European Union
• Like a famed film falcon
• The __, standard example of a 1 Across in the novel by Dashiell Hammett
• Eg, native of Valletta
• 'The Falcon'
• Like a falcon of fiction
• Member of the toy group