| AMANDAOWEN | Real name of the Yorkshire Shepherdess born in 1974 noted for her books and TV work (6,4) |
| MOYLES | Chris, English radio and TV presenter born in 1974 noted for his maverick style (6) |
| FEATHERBRAINED | Silly female put away her book and showered (7-7) |
| LIPSTADT | Deborah ******** , historian noted for her book 'Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory' (8) |
| BETTYFRIEDAN | Writer born in 1921 noted for her book 'The Feminine Mystique' (5,7) |
| OWEN | With nine children and 1,000 sheep, a farmer-author from Swaledale known as the Yorkshire Shepherdess (4) |
| COWELL | Cressida ___, children's author noted for her book series How to Train Your Dragon |
| JOYADAMSON | 20th-century naturalist and author best known for her book Born Free (3,7) |
| JOYCEWORDS | What Carol Oates used in her books? |
| HEADINGLEY | Home ground of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club (10) |
| PERRYMASON | Book and TV crime solver |
| DOSTOEVSKY | Idiot writer does Sky TV works about love (10) |
| DANIELLE | She had at least one of her books in the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive wee |
| AYNRAND | Russian-born US writer whose philosophy, 'objectivism', was popularised in her books The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) (3,4) |
| SWALEDALE | With wool used for knitwear, tweeds and rugs, a hardy breed of sheep depicted on the logo of the Yorkshire Dales National Park (9) |
| OKRI | Ben ---, Nigerian-born writer who was guest director of the Yorkshire Festival of Story in 2022 (4) |
| FILEY | Seaside town in North Yorkshire that is the end point of the Yorkshire Wolds Way (5) |
| LUTWIDGE | Middle name of Charles Dodgson, the real name of the author Lewis Carroll (8) |
| MARYBEARD | Professor of classics at Cambridge, whose books and TV programmes have popularised the subject (4,5) |
| STARKEY | David -; historian noted for books and television series about the Tudor period (7) |
