| $5 bills, so to speak |
ABES |
| ''Ah, Wilderness!'' playwright |
EUGENEONEILL |
| ''Beloved'' novelist |
TONIMORRISON |
| ''España en el corazón'' poet |
PABLONERUDA |
| ''Herzog'' author |
SAULBELLOW |
| ''I __ out of here!'' |
AMSO |
| ''Jingle Bells'' contraction |
OER |
| ''Marching Along'' autobiographer |
SOUSA |
| ''Nevermore'' squawker |
RAVEN |
| ''No problem for me!'' |
SURECAN |
| ''Open Secrets'' short-story author |
ALICEMUNRO |
| ''Piedra de Sol'' poet |
OCTAVIOPAZ |
| ''The Good Earth'' novelist |
PEARLSBUCK |
| ''The Magic Mountain'' novelist |
THOMASMANN |
| ''The Stranger'' novelist |
ALBERTCAMUS |
| ''Uh'' sound |
SCHWA |
| 100 clams |
CNOTE |
| 911 responding grp |
EMS |
| Agree to join |
OPTIN |
| Algerian port |
ORAN |
| Alternatively |
ELSE |
| Any of the Keys |
ISLE |
| Avengers of myth |
FURIES |
| Banquet ritual |
TOAST |
| Barred to outsiders |
GATED |
| Beehive State collegian |
UTE |
| Bikini part |
BRA |
| Bloat |
SWELL |
| Bottiglia ristorante |
VINO |
| Buzz Lightyear or Buck Rogers |
SPACEMAN |
| Candidates' campaign |
RACE |
| Canon competitor |
LEICA |
| Capital on a fjord |
OSLO |
| Cassowaries' cousins |
EMUS |
| Category for which the nine writers have won a Nobel |
LITERATURE |
| Catering hall worker |
VALET |
| Civil War general Doubleday |
ABNER |
| Coffee specification |
NOSUGAR |
| Colorado resort |
ASPEN |
| Comfy slip-on |
MOC |
| Comparatively clever |
NEATER |
| Compete in a regatta |
ROW |
| Contract endorser |
SIGNEE |
| Conventional pattern |
NORM |
| Costa __ Sol |
DEL |
| Creative expressions |
ARTS |
| Designer Donna |
KARAN |
| Digital photo format |
JPEG |
| Diploma word of honor |
SUMMA |
| Divider of the day |
NOON |
| Do a veterinary job |
SPAY |
| Ending for eager |
NESS |
| Fancy button |
STUD |
| Fashion editor Wintour |
ANNA |
| Female fowl |
HEN |
| Fervor |
HEAT |
| First-first link |
THINGS |
| Former poet laureate Van Duyn |
MONA |
| Frat letters |
ETAS |
| Freshener scent |
PINE |
| Friend of Fido |
SPOT |
| Gain altitude |
ASCEND |
| German Johnny |
HANS |
| Get together (with) |
MEETUP |
| Gets by |
DOESOK |
| Gets going after a shutdown |
RESTARTS |
| Gives as a source |
CITES |
| Glacier, essentially |
ICE |
| Ham it up |
EMOTE |
| Have the nerve |
DARE |
| Having left |
GONE |
| Heavy coat |
PARKA |
| Honda's upscale brand |
ACURA |
