| GONCHAROV | Ivan ___, Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ___, Russian novelist and dramatist whose plays include A Month in the Country (8) |
| VLADIMIRNABOKOV | Author of Oblomov having lost head via drink with a drunk (8,7) |
| GORKI | Maksim ___, Russian novelist whose name can also end in "y" (5) |
| MARTINNIEMOLLER | German anti-Nazi theologian best known as the author of the poem First they came ... |
| IZAAKWALTON | English writer best known as the author of The Compleat Angler |
| WALTON | 17th-century English writer (surname) best known as the author of The Compleat Angler (6) |
| NIEMOLLER | Martin ___, German anti-Nazi theologian best known as the author of the poem First they came ... |
| HERGE | Belgian cartoonist best remembered as the author of the 23 comic books The Adventures of Tin Tin (5) |
| ASCHAM | Prestigious Sydney girl's school with the same name as the author of The Schoolmaster |
| HOMER | Greek poet credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey (5) |
| THOMAS | German Augustinian monk credited as the author of 15th-century devotional work The Imitation of Chri |
| STERNE | Resent being miscast as the author of 'Tristram Shandy' (6) |
| EDMCBAIN | Evan Hunter's pen name as the author of 87th Precinct novels (2,6) |
| ORWELL | Blair, as the writer of "Zero tolerance at the heart, I say!" (6) |
| SNORRI | ____ Sturluson was traditionally seen as the writer of the Prose Edda |
| AJACCIO | City on the west coast of Corsica best known as the birthplace of the Emperor Napoleon |
| SEARLE | Ronald, cartoonist best known as the creator of the schoolgirls of St. Trinian's (6) |
| HORSEFERRYROAD | London street best known as the site of the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court |
| RONALDSEARLE | Cartoonist best known as the creator of the schoolgirls of St Trinian's (6,6) |