| JOYCE | Author who wrote "The heaventree of stars |
| EDITH | Forename of the author who wrote The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers and also the Psammead that includes The Story of the Amulet (5) |
| ROWLING | Author who wrote the Cormoran Strike trilogy comprising The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil under the pen name of Robert Galbraith (7) |
| HARDY | Dorset-born author who wrote the Wessex novels including Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (5) |
| GALBRAITH | Pen name of the author who wrote The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and, most recently, Career of Ev |
| IRIS | Flower in a family that includes crocuses, freesias, gladioli; or, the first name of the author who wrote The Sea, The Sea (4) |
| TEY | Pen name of the author who wrote the Inspector Alan Grant novels including A Shilling for Candles and The Daughter of Time (3) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the author who wrote The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch (5) |
| CHILD | Pen name of the author who wrote the Jack Reacher series of novels including Killing Floor, Tripwire, One Shot, A Wanted Man and Night School (5) |
| GASTOMLEROUX | French journalist and author who wrote the novel The Phantom Of The Opera (6,6) |
| PETERS | Pen name of the author who wrote the Cadfael Chronicles based on a fictional mystery-solving medieval Welsh Benedictine monk, apothecary and herbalist of Shrewsbury Abbey (6) |
| FARRELL | J. G. -; author who wrote the Empire Trilogy comprising Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip (7) |
| TONICADEBAMBARA | Author who wrote, "The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality," in "The Salt Eaters" |
| SCOTT | Sir Walter -; author who wrote the Waverley novels including The Antiquary, Rob Roy, The Bride of Lammermoor and Kenilworth (5) |
| DOYLE | Scottish author who wrote The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan ... |
| WESLEY | Pen name of the author who wrote The Camomile Lawn (6) |
| GRAHAM | Author who wrote the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall including The Black Moon, T |
| SETH | Indian author who wrote The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy and the collection of fables in verse Beastly Tales (4) |
| PLATH | Sylvia -; author who wrote The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel and the novel The Bell Jar (5) |
| NGAIO | First name of the author who wrote the Roderick Alleyn mysteries including Vintage Murder and Final Curtain (5) |
