| DINESEN | Isak -, pseudonym of Karen Blixen, author of memoir Out of Africa |
| ISAKDINESEN | One of the pen names of Karen Blixen, author of 'Out of Africa' (4,7) |
| ISAK | Pen name of Danish author Karen Blixen, author of Outof Africa and Babette's Feast (4,7) |
| KARENBLIXEN | Danish author of 1937 memoir Out of Africa under pen name Isak Dinesen |
| BLIXEN | Danish author of 1937 memoir Out of Africa under pen name Isak Dinesen (5,6)) |
| KAREN | Danish author of 1937 memoir Out of Africa under pen name Isak Dinesen (5,6) |
| AFRICA | Karen Blixen's memoir, Out Of ___ (6) |
| SOLOMON | ___ Northup, main author of memoir Twelve Years A Slave and protagonist of the similarly titled 2014 film (7) |
| CHESSMAN | US convict executed in 1960; author of memoir Cell 2455, Death Row (5,8) |
| CARYL | US convict executed in 1960; author of memoir Cell 2455, Death Row (5,8) |
| DAVEPELZER | Author of memoirs A Child Called It and The Lost Boy (4,6) |
| MCCOURT | Frank ___, author of the volumes of memoir 'Tis and Teacher Man (7) |
| LEVI | Primo, Italian author of the 1956 volume of memoirs The Periodic Table (4) |
| DOREEN | Pal of Karen and Cubby, on an old TV "Club" |
| FIANCEE | The Dales alter ego of Karen Blick is Sam Dingle's ___ (7) |
| LOUSIE | _ Mitchell, mum to another of Karen Taylor's grandkids, Peggy (6) |
| IRAN | Fragment of memoir antagonises Turkish neighbour (4) |
| IRISH | Part of memoir I shortened in language using fewer letters (5) |
| ICELAND | Dreaming of ----, memoir by Sally Magnusson (7) |
| DIARY | Type of memoir |
