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2. Lewis Carroll
4. Shel Silverstein
6. Clam
8. Clam
10. clam. I'm thinking Richard Riordan, but maybe not.
3. Europa
6. clam
9. Persephone
12. clam. I'm thinking Libya, but why?
15. clam. Lots of old Hindu gods -- Agni, Mitra, Varuna, but I can't place this one.
3. Europa
6. [question wording a bit unclear... is it the man or the region that's named for the consort of Apollo?]
9. Persephone
12. Hathor
15. [clam]
2: Mathematician Charles Dodgson wrote children's works, including “The Hunting of the Snark,” under this pseudonym.
LEWIS CARROLL
4: This author of The Giving Tree also wrote the Johnny Cash hit “A Boy Named Sue.”
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
6: In her “World,” the latest book in Beverly Cleary's series featuring this protagonist, the heroine is in fourth grade while her sister Beezus starts high school.
RAMONA
8: In 1999 this author released Ender's Shadow, the first book in a trilogy that occurs alongside another book series that debuted fourteen years earlier.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
10: This author of the Percy Jackson series has the same name as the mayor of Los Angeles who replaced Tom Bradley in 1993.
RICHARD RIORDAN
CONSORTS OF THE GODS
3: Zeus first appeared to this Phonecian princess after whom a continent is named in the form of a white bull.
EUROPA
6: According to Matthew 27:32, a man from a North African region named for this consort of Apollo carried Jesus' cross to Golgotha.
CYRENE
9: For every pomegranate seed she ate, this daughter of Zeus and Demeter was forced to spend one month per year in the underworld with Pluto.
PERSEPHONE
12: This Egyptian cow goddess associated with the Milky Way is at various times said to be the consort of Sobek and Horus.
HATHOR
15: In the Mahabharta, Princess Kunti inadvertently summons this Hindu sun god to conceive a child with her.