| Tattered Tom author | 22 |
| Tale-telling Horatio | 20 |
| Rags-to-riches penner | 21 |
| Rags-to-riches novelist Horatio | 31 |
| Rags-to-riches figure | 21 |
| Ragged Dick author | 20 |
| Popular early serials writer | 28 |
| Mr. Hiss | 8 |
| Inspirational author | 20 |
| Innocent Hiss? | 14 |
| Horatio, the author | 19 |
| Horatio who wrote about down-and-out boys | 41 |
| Horatio who created Tattered Tom | 32 |
| Hiss in history | 15 |
| Hiss of history | 16 |
| He wrote more than 100 books for boys | 37 |
| He wrote "Ragged Dick" | 32 |
| Fanny ___ (purported first wife for Mormonism founder Joseph Smith, Jr.) | 72 |
| Creator of the Ragged Dick books | 32 |
| Creator of the Ragged Dick series | 39 |
| Creator of Tattered Tom | 23 |
| Creator of Phil the Fiddler | 27 |
| Children's author Horatio | 29 |
| Author of books for boys | 24 |
| Author of "The Young Bank Messenger" | 46 |
| Author of "Ragged Dick" and "Tattered Tom" | 62 |
| Author of "Phil the Fiddler" | 38 |
| Author of "Luck and Pluck" | 36 |
| Author of "Jed, the Poor House Boy" | 45 |
| Author Horatio who wrote "Ragged Dick" | 48 |
| Author Horatio known for rags-to-riches stories | 47 |
| "The Telegraph Boy" novelist | 38 |
| "Tattered Tom" writer | 31 |
| "Tattered Tom" novelist | 33 |
| "Sink or Swim" author | 31 |
| "Risen From the Ranks" writer | 39 |
| "Ragged Dick" writer | 30 |
| "Phil the Fiddler" author | 35 |
| "Paul Prescott's Charge" author Horatio | 53 |
| "Nelson the Newsboy" author | 37 |
| "Lester's Luck" author | 36 |
| ''Tattered Tom'' author | 39 |
| ''Ragged Dick'' author | 38 |
| Suspected spy of the 1930s-'40s | 35 |
| Suspected spy in a celebrated 1949 trial | 40 |
| Suspected Soviet spy of the McCarthy era | 40 |
| Red Scare target | 16 |
| Niger neighbor | 14 |
| African country | 15 |
| Neighbor of Libya | 17 |
| Mali neighbor | 13 |
| Libya neighbor | 14 |
| African land | 12 |
| "The Plague" setting | 30 |
| One of the Barbary States | 25 |
| Setting for Camus's "The Plague" | 46 |
| Neighbor of Morocco | 19 |
| Camus's birthplace | 22 |
| Second-largest country in Africa by area | 40 |
| Morocconeighbor | 15 |
| Morocco neighbor | 16 |
| Medit. republic | 15 |
| Birthplace of Camus | 19 |
| Berber's home | 17 |
| Oran locale | 11 |
| Neighbor of Tunisia | 19 |
| Loser to U.S. in 1815 | 21 |
| Largest Mediterranean country | 29 |
| Largest Arab country in the world | 33 |
| Largest African country | 23 |
| Land of the casbahs | 19 |
| Land in the Barbary Wars | 24 |
| It gained independence from France in 1962 | 42 |
| Home to roughly 32 million Sunnis | 33 |
| French-controlled land: 1847–1962 | 40 |
| Constantine is its third-largest city | 37 |
| Casbah country | 14 |
| Berber home | 11 |
| Ben Bella's home | 20 |
| Batna's country | 19 |
| Barbary Wars participant, now | 29 |
| Atlas Mountains country | 23 |
| Arab League member since 1962 | 29 |
| An Atlas Mountains locale | 25 |
| African country that was a French colony | 40 |
| A neighbor of Mali | 18 |
| Titular mouse in a classic Daniel Keyes novel | 45 |
| Poet Swinburne | 14 |
| Mouse in a classic Daniel Keyes book | 36 |
| Maze-running rat in "Charly" | 38 |
| Dandy in "The Importance of Being Earnest" | 52 |
| Bachelor in Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" | 67 |
| "Flowers for __": story from which the film "Charly" was adapted | 84 |
| "Flowers for __": Daniel Keyes sci-fi classic | 55 |
| "Flowers for ___" (basis for the movie "Charly") | 68 |
| Computer language | 17 |
| Star in Perseus | 15 |
| A computer language | 19 |
| Bright star in Perseus | 22 |
| Binary star in Perseus | 22 |