| OKRI | Ben ---, Nigerian-born writer who was guest director of the Yorkshire Festival of Story in 2022 (4) |
| AIRE | River of the Yorkshire dales (4) |
| NIDD | Tributary of the Yorkshire Ouse (4) |
| GIDE | Andre ---, French author who was a friend of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s (4) |
| SADE | Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter of an eponymous band, whose hits include 1984's 'Your Love Is King' and 'Smooth Operator' (4) |
| CARR | American writer who was once secretary of the London Detection Club |
| LAMB | Writer who was small one in a flock? (4) |
| ZOLA | Influential 19th century French writer who was an outspoken activist for the falsely-accused Alfred |
| IMAN | Nigerian-born supermodel |
| HUGO | Writer who was a source for Verdi's "Rigoletto" |
| AGEE | Pulitzer-winning author who was also a film critic for Time magazine |
| 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) |
| NEALCASSADY | US writer who was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the Jack Kerouac novel On the Road (4 |
| ITANI | Frances ___ (Belleville, ON born writer who is a Member of the Order of Canada. Her bestsellers incl |
| WELLS | H G - (1866 - 1946) London-born writer who wrote The War of the Worlds (1898) (5) |
| AMANDAOWEN | Real name of the Yorkshire Shepherdess born in 1974 noted for her books and TV work (6,4) |
| FILEY | Seaside town in North Yorkshire that is the end point of the Yorkshire Wolds Way (5) |
| SERLING | Rod, New York-born writer who created the television series The Twilight Zone (7) |
| BELLOW | Saul ___, Canadian-born writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1976 |
| HESSLE | She's confused by the French at the eastern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way (6) |
