| DODGSON | Surname of British author who used the pen name Lewis Carroll (7) |
| MUNRO | H H ?, British writer who used the pen name Saki (5) |
| RABELAIS | Author who used the pseudonym "Alcofribas Nasier," an anagram of his full name |
| CHARLESLAMB | English writer who used the pen name Elia (7,4) |
| RONNIEBARKER | Comedian, actor and writer who used the pen name Gerald Wiley (6,6) |
| CLEMENS | Samuel Langhorne -, author who used pen name Mark Twain (7) |
| STEWART | Surname of British driver who won the Formula 1 world championship three times in the 1960s and 1970s (7) |
| DRSEUSS | Writer who used his actual middle name as a pen name |
| LESSING | British author who wrote the Children Of Violence series of novels, Doris _ (7) |
| EDWARDS | Martin British author who created the character of Harry Devlin (7) |
| MILL | The ___ on the Floss: 1860 novel by Mary Ann Evans, who used the pen name George Eliot (4) |
| ANNE | Bronte sister who used the pen name Acton Bell |
| AAMILNE | British author who created Winnie-the-Pooh: 3 wds. |
| BURGESS | Anthony ---, British author who wrote A Clockwork Orange (7) |
| TSELIOT | Poet who used the name Old Possum |
| POE | Poet who used the pen name Quarles |
| JBMORTON | Humorist who used the pen name Beachcomber |
| DUMAS | Writer who used the word adsum (5) |
| HARDY | Dorset's celebrated literary figure who used the names Shaston or Palladour to describe the Saxon hilltop town Shaftesbury in the fictional Wessex of his novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbe |
| SAKI | Pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), from a cupbearer in the Rubeiyat of Omar Khayyam (4) |