Across
- 3. Large, alcoholic cat.
- 5. Ancient slave turned philosopher.
- 8. Family name of four sisters, one of whom contracts scarlet fever.
- 9. Tartt's scarred and crippled academic who blew his own mind.
- 12. American musician and anarchist, died 1993.
- 15. Fictional revolutionary, forever a student, commonly depicted upside-down.
- 16. Sentient fireplace, demonic in origin.
- 17. Name shared by both a 1917 Revolutionary and a Russian-American author.
- 18. European nation that gained independence in 1922.
- 19. Nervous pianist who momentarily joins the dead.
- 20. Columbian writer who famously wrote about a century of isolation.
Down
- 1. Perpetual bolder roller.
- 2. Ancient journeyman with over a decade of experience.
- 4. Paris inhabitant, veteran, and writer.
- 6. Balding Englishman who is never far from high-school classrooms.
- 7. Female writer often seen beside Fitzgerald.
- 10. George R. R. Martin's opening patriarch of the North.
- 11. Wessex novelist turned poet.
- 13. Beat poet, and friends with a murderer.
- 14. Stoker's titular antagonist.