| COCTEAU | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| JEAN | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| ONCLE | Frre de la mre |
| RUTHPARK | New Zealand?born Australian author whose best-known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow |
| GOGOL | Nikolai ___, Russian author whose best-known works are The Government Inspector and Dead Souls |
| GARBO | Swedish-born actress who starred in Anna Christie, Mata Hari, Grand Hotel and the 1934 film version |
| IVAN | Name shared by seven Russian tsars, including 'The Terrible' and 'The Fair' (4) |
| EPITHETS | "The Terrible" and "the Unready," e.g. |
| VERDI | Giuseppe -; composer who based his opera La Traviata on Alexandre Dumas fils's novel and play La Dame aux Camelias (5) |
| SARDOU | Victorien, French author of the play La Tosca (6) |
| JEANCOCTEAU | French writer, designer and film director whose works include the novel Les Enfants terrible |
| FRIML | Rudolf ___, Prague-born composer whose best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King |
| BATES | H.E. ---, 20th Century English author whose best-known works include The Darling Buds Of May (5) |
| WOOLF | Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, the novelist whose best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves and the extended essay A Room of One's Own (5) |
| MANET | Surname of the French painter whose best-known works include Absinthe Drinker and Bar at the Folies-Bergere (5) |
| DEEPING | Warwick ___, prolific English novelist and short story writer whose best-known novel was Sorrell and Son |
| BALLARD | JG _, novelist whose best-known works are Crash (1973) |
| JONG | Author whose best-known work begins "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them" |
| HELENFIELDING | Author whose best-known character first appeared in an anonymous column in The Independent in 1995 |
| JULESVERNE | French author whose novels include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty |
