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• Garden ___
• It's followed by moviegoers
• Novelist's need
• Novel creation
• Slice of wry?
• Connive
• Cabal's plans
• It sometimes thickens
• Much-misunderstood writing
• 'The ___ thickens'
• Novelist's concern
• Paranoiac's worry
• Part of a pitch
• Novelist's thread
• 15-Across with a twist