| SAYERS | Dorothy L, crime writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey (6) |
| DOROTHYLSAYERS | English crime writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane (7,1,6) |
| LSAYERS | English crime writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane |
| DOROTHY | English crime writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane |
| SAYRES | Dorothy L. who created Lord Peter |
| DOROTHYSAYERS | Author who created Lord Peter Wimsey |
| AGATHA | Across English crime writer who created fictional detective Miss Marple (6,8) |
| RANKIN | Ian, Scottish crime writer who created maverick inspector John Rebus (6) |
| DEXTER | Colin ---, English crime writer who created Inspector Morse (6) |
| CLOUDS | 1926 novel by Dorothy L Sayers featuring Lord Peter Wimsey |
| MICKEY | Crime writer who created the detective Mike Hammer, ... Spillane |
| TITLED | Like Lord Peter Wimsey or Count Dracula, say (6) |
| VANE | Harriet ?, mystery writer creation of Dorothy L Sayers who marries Lord Peter Wimsey (4) |
| HARRIETVANE | Creation of Dorothy L Sayers who marries Lord Peter Wimsey (7,4) |
| CHRISTIE | Across English crime writer who created fictional detective Miss Marple (6,8) |
| COLINDEXTER | English crime writer who created Inspector Morse (5,6) |
| IANRANKIN | Scottish crime writer who created Inspector Rebus (3, 6) |
| REGINALD | ____ Hill, English crime writer who created detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe (8) |
| WHOSEBODY | The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy L Sayers (5,4) |
| REDHERRINGS | The Five ____ is one of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy L Sayers |