The World of O Henry

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• The illness that afflicted Johnsy in a cold November (9)
• The specific length of fiction that O Henry mastered (5)
• The profession Porter practiced before becoming a full-time writer (10)
• A common plot device in the story A Retrieved Reformation (5)

Down

• A French term for a writer's professional alias (10)
• The act of changing for the better as Jimmy did (11)
• The item Jim Dillingham Young sold to buy hair combs (5)
• The famous outlaw character created by O Henry (8)
• The city in Texas where Porter worked as a bank teller (6)
• The humorous tone found in The Ransom of Red Chief (5)
• The central symbol of hope in a story about a sick girl in Greenwich Village (4)

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