| MITFORD | Nancy - - -, British novelist and biographer who wrote Love In A Cold Climate (7) |
| NANCYMITFORD | British novelist and biographer who wrote Love In A Cold Climate (5,7) |
| NANCY | Sister of Jessica and Unity, she wrote Love In A Cold Climate; ... Mitford |
| NICOLSON | Diplomat, writer and biographer who lived at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent with his wife Vita Sackville-West (8) |
| ARTHURMARX | American novelist, screenwriter and biographer who lost the 1941 Cincinnati Masters men's singles final to Bobby Riggs |
| FRASER | Lady Antonia ___, novelist and biographer (6) |
| ERDRICH | Louise who wrote "Love Medicine" and "The Round House" |
| CSLEWIS | British novelist and Christian scholar, honoured in 2013, 50 years after his death, with a memorial in Poets' Corner (1,1,5) |
| ZIEGLER | Philip ___ (b.1929), British historian and biographer of William IV, Cecil Rhodes and Edward VIII (7) |
| ROBLOWE | Brat Packer who wrote "Love Life" * |
| BOSWELL | Who (James ___) was companion and biographer to Samuel Johnson? (7) |
| SITWELL | English poet, critic and biographer (1887-1964) whose autobiography, Taken Care Of, was published posthumously in 1965 (7) |
| PIKE | Actress in a dramatisation of Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and films including Pride & Prejudice, Gone Girl, A Private War and Radioactive (4) |
| HIGHLAND | - Fling; novel by Nancy Mitford, author also of Christmas Pudding, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate (8) |
| SYON | ___ House; London home of the Duke of Northumberland, used as a filming location for Love in a Cold Climate, Gosford Park, Emma and Vanity Fair (4) |
| CONGREVE | William ___; English dramatist who wrote Love for Love and The Way of the World (8) |
| TONI | Morrison who wrote "Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." |
| ESKIMO | Mike's novel? "Love in a Cold Climate", one's found (6) |
| JKROWLING | British novelist and creator of characters in 8a who also wrote the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: 3 wds. |
| COE | Surname shared by a British novelist and a British middle distance runner |
