| ___ Moonliner (former Disneyland rocket) | 40 |
| Went on about trivial things | 28 |
| Babbled on and on | 17 |
| Containing no nonsense | 22 |
| Politico with his mouth open | 28 |
| One who prates | 14 |
| Talking silly | 13 |
| Jumping frog creator | 20 |
| Creator of Pudd'nhead Wilson | 32 |
| "The Prince and the Pauper" author | 44 |
| Tom Sawyer creator | 18 |
| Sawyer's creator | 20 |
| Pen name for Clemens | 20 |
| Clemens | 7 |
| "Roughing It" writer | 30 |
| Writer buried in Elmira | 23 |
| Mark, of Finn fame | 18 |
| Huck Finn's creator | 23 |
| Hannibal lecturer | 17 |
| Finn's creator | 18 |
| Finn creator | 12 |
| Book Mark? | 10 |
| Aunt Polly's creator | 24 |
| "Tom Sawyer" author | 29 |
| "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get" author | 68 |
| ''Achilles and the Tortoise'' author Mark | 57 |
| Writer Mark | 11 |
| Wit who wrote "When in doubt, tell the truth" | 55 |
| Who said "Golf is a good walk spoiled" | 48 |
| Who said "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children" | 63 |
| The Finn man | 12 |
| Singer Shania | 13 |
| Shania _____ (Juno Artist of 2003) | 34 |
| Shania | 6 |
| Samuel Clemens | 14 |
| Pudd'nhead's creator | 28 |
| Our Valentine song singer | 25 |
| Ontario's Shania ____ | 25 |
| Mississippi name | 16 |
| Mark with a mustache | 20 |
| Mark who said "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company" | 76 |
| Mark who created Tom Sawyer | 27 |
| Mark of wit | 11 |
| Mark of literature | 18 |
| Mark of fine writing? | 21 |
| Kipling non-meeting word | 24 |
| Justin Kaplan subject | 21 |
| Injun Joe creator | 17 |
| He said, "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to" | 69 |
| Hannibal's favorite son | 27 |
| Finn chronicler | 15 |
| Creator of Sawyer and Finn | 26 |
| Creator of Muff Potter | 22 |
| Country singer Shania | 21 |
| Clemens pseudonym | 17 |
| Autobiography byline of 2010 | 28 |
| Author quoted below | 19 |
| Author of "The Mysterious Stranger" | 45 |
| Author depicted next to a steamboat on a 2011 stamp | 51 |
| "What Is Man?" essayist | 33 |
| "Truth is more of a stranger than fiction" writer | 59 |
| "The Innocents Abroad" author | 39 |
| "The Gilded Age" co-author | 36 |
| "Pudd'nhead Wilson" writer | 40 |
| "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits" quipper | 75 |
| "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" singer (hate me later for giving you the earworm) | 86 |
| "Is Shakespeare Dead?" writer | 39 |
| "Huckleberry Finn" author | 35 |
| "Following the Equator" author | 40 |
| "Come on Over" singer | 31 |
| "A Tramp Abroad" writer | 33 |
| "A Tramp Abroad" author | 33 |
| " . . . never the ___ shall meet" | 43 |
| ''The Prince and the Pauper'' author | 52 |
| ''Eve's Diary'' writer | 42 |
| ''Achilles and the Tortoise'' subject Mark | 58 |
| Mark and Shania | 15 |
| Shania and kin | 14 |
| Mark et al. | 11 |
| Author's victim? | 20 |
| Nasal accent | 12 |
| Country sound | 13 |
| Nasal tone | 10 |
| Plucked-string sound | 20 |
| Nashville intonation | 20 |
| Nasal speech pattern | 20 |
| Steel guitar sound | 18 |
| Snuffle | 7 |
| Nashville nasality | 18 |
| Nasality | 8 |
| Jew's-harp sound | 20 |
| Willie Nelson sound | 19 |
| Vocal quality of some country singers | 37 |
| Vocal nasality | 14 |
| String sound | 12 |
| Sound of plucked string | 23 |
| Sound from a banjo | 18 |
| Sound a banjo can make | 22 |
| Plucked string sound | 20 |
| Pluck a guitar | 14 |