| RUARK | Sporting columnist who wrote "The Old Man and the Boy" |
| CUBA | Where Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| HAVANA | Where Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| GEORGEWILL | Newspaper columnist who wrote the book "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" |
| GILL | A. A. -; late restaurant critic and columnist who wrote the memoir Pour Me: A Life (4) |
| CAITLIN | --- Moran, Times columnist who wrote the bestseller How to Be a Woman |
| AESOP | 'The Phrygian has spoken better than all,' the King of Lydia is supposed to have remarked of this Greek slave born around 620BC who put together stories like The Hare And The Tortoise and The Boy Who |
| WILSON | Angus -; novelist who wrote The Old Men at the Zoo (6) |
| AMIS | British author who wrote "The Old Devils" |
| PEELE | Shakespeare contemporary George who wrote The Old Wives' Tale |
| BENNETT | Arnold ___, novelist who wrote The Old Wives' Tale (7) |
| FOSTER | Stephen ... , songwriter who wrote The Old Folks at Home (6) |
| CAEN | Columnist who wrote "Baghdad by the Bay" |
| ALHOROWITZ | American International Master and New York Times chess columnist who wrote many books about chess |
| PEARSON | 1930's-60's columnist who wrote "Washington Merry-Go-Round" |
| BROOKE | Poet who counted Winston Churchill, W. B. Yeats and Virginia Woolf among his friends and wrote The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (6) |
| GUEST | Germaine, author of the books The Whole Woman and The Boy (5) |
| IRA | Levin who wrote "The Stepford Wives" and "The Boys from Brazil" |
| JAMESMASON | British actor, star of films including Lolita and The Boys from Brazil, who was also in the cast of Evil Under the Sun, a big screen adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel that was shot in Mallorca (5 |
| DAWNED | The girl and the boy started together |
