| HERRIOT | James ___, pen name of English author whose works include All Creatures Great and Small (1972) |
| AGATHA | First name of English author of Murder on the Orient Express (6) |
| DRYDEN | John -; poet and dramatist whose works include All for Love and Absalom and Achitophel (6) |
| ARTHURMILLER | Playwright whose works include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible |
| ROHMER | Sax ___, pen name of English novelist Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, best remembered for his series of novels featuring Dr Fu Manchu |
| SAXROHMER | Pen name of English novelist Arthur Henry Ward (1883-1959), creator of the villainous Fu Manchu (3,6) |
| CAHN | Sammy, songwriter whose works include All the Way (4) |
| TWAIN | Mark ___; pen name of the author of novels including The Prince and the Pauper and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (5) |
| NESBIT | Edith ___, English author whose works include The Railway Children and Five Children and It |
| GALBRAITH | Robert ___; pen name of the author who wrote The Cuckooa's Calling,The Silkworm and Career of Evil (9) |
| ELIOT | George ___, pen name of the author of novels including Adam Bede (1859) and Middlemarch (1871-2) (5) |
| GRAVES | English author whose works include the autobiography Goodbye to All That, historical novel I, Claudius and extended essay The White Goddess (6) |
| TOMSHARPE | English author whose works include the Wilt series of novels (3,6) |
| TROLLOPE | Anthony ___, English author whose works include the Palliser series of political novels |
| JBPRIESTLEY | English author whose works include The Good Companions (novel, 1929) and An Inspector Calls (play, 1945) (1,1,9) |
| BENNETT | Alan ___, English writer whose works include the plays The Madness Of George III and The History Boys (7) |
| ALANBENNETT | English writer whose works include the plays The Madness Of George III and The History Boys (4,7) |
| ROBERTGRAVES | English writer whose works include Good-Bye to All That and I, Claudius (6,6) |
| WOOD | Mrs Henry ___; pen name of Ellen Price, author of some 30 novels including the Victorian bestseller East Lynne, Danesbury House and The Channings (4) |
| HEBATES | English writer whose works include Love for Lydia and My Uncle Silas (1,1,5) |