| HERRIOT | Pen name of worldfamous vet, James ___ (7) |
| DEFOE | Daniel _, author of worldfamous English classic, Robinson Crusoe (5) |
| MONA | ___ Lisa (Worldfamous painting) |
| TIMOTHY | Christopher a"; actor who played the role of vet James Herriot in the television series All Creatures Great and Small (7) |
| WYNDHAM | John -; pen name of the author of The Day of the Triffids (7) |
| BARKLEM | Pen name of the children's author and illustrator Gillian Gaze, who wrote the seasonal autumn, spring, summer and winter stories based on the miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge (7) |
| ROWLING | Author who wrote the Cormoran Strike trilogy comprising The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil under the pen name of Robert Galbraith (7) |
| MISHIMA | Pen name of the Japanese author who wrote Forbidden Colours and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy; a nationalist who committed seppuku in 1970 (7) |
| DINESEN | Pen name of Danish author Karen Blixen, author of Outof Africa and Babette's Feast (4,7) |
| CARROLL | Lewis -; pen name of the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (7) |
| ANGELOU | Maya -; pen name of Marguerite Annie Johnson who wrote a series of seven autobiographies (7) |
| DRSEUSS | Pen name of the author and illustrator of a number of children's books including Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat (2,5) |
| COLLODI | Pen name of signor Lorenzini, under which he wrote the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (5,7) |
| ANATOLE | Pen name of the French novelist famous for the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, Thais, etc. (7,6) |
| LECARRE | Pen name of the author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2,5) |
| COLETTE | Pen name of the French novelist who wrote Gigi (7) |
| DODGSON | Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles ___ (7) |
| MOLIERE | Pen name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the French dramatist who wrote Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The School for Wives and The Bourgeois Gentleman (7) |
| RENAULT | Mary, pen name of a writer noted for her historical novels set in Greece (7) |
| CLEMENS | Mark Twain was the pen name of writer, Samuel ... |
