Solution to Three's the Charm

Each clue refers to a person who often is referred to by three names, though the puzzle only gives the lengths for the first and third names.

The first letters of the second names spell out WOLFGANGMOZART. Again, find the second name: AMADEUS, which is the answer.

Self-reliant essayist that advised attaching wagons to celestial bodies	ralph	Waldo	emerson
Person who was the first to transport silk commercially – at least by air	philip	Orin	parmelee
Actress who knows what you five did last summer	jennifer	Love	hewitt
Despite his name, this author does not make barrels; likewise, his most famous character isn't a particularly sharp dresser	james	Fenimore	cooper
The creator of Macondo (a district of Colombia)	gabriel	García	márquez
Singer who is fond of telling people she hopes they dance, including George W Bush and Nobel Peace laureates	lee	Ann	womack
She encourages you to get physical - at least, if you're the one that she wants	olivia	Newton	john
He plays The Doctor opposite Christopher Eccelston; his version is decidedly more serpentine	joshua	Gordon	levitt
Though she wrote about good wives and old-fashioned girls, this author was a feminist who took her pen name from a prominent women's college	louisa	May	alcott
He was the first American to have an element named after him, and also lent his name to two national labs	ernest	Orlando	lawrence
She got her start as Annie, but her breakout role was opposite Zorro	catherine	Zeta	jones
This wizardly inventor had the bright idea to nickname his first child "Dot" and his second child "Dash"	thomas	Alva	edison
Despite being an American, he wrote mainly of nobility: red princesses and a jungle lord	edgar	Rice	burroughs
If you were a teen in the 90s, you may have found it an improvement to deck your home's walls with this heart-throb's poster	jonathan	Taylor	thomas

by Kaia Dekker