| RUDYARD | With 42 Across, British author of "How the Camel Got His Hump" |
| SOSTORIES | Rudyard Kipling's collection which included How The Camel Got His Hump and The Elephant Child, "full of 'satiable curiosity"; Just ... (2,7) |
| JUSTSOSTORIES | "How the Camel Got His Hump" et al. |
| SEUSS | Dr -, author of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (5) |
| RIIS | Author of "How the Other Half Lives" |
| AGATHA | And 11 Across British author who created the fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple (6,8) |
| CRESSIDA | A character portrayed in one of Shakespeare's plays; or, the first name of the author of How to Train Your Dragon (8) |
| COOPER | Author of How to Survive Christmas who lost the only copy of the manuscript of her novel Riders on a London bus in 1970 (6) |
| LENO | Author of "How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World" |
| NIGELLA | First name of the author of How to Be a Domestic Goddess and Feast (7) |
| MANSFIELD | Pen name of the author of How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped (9) |
| REID | Across British comic artist associated with strips Jonah and Roger the Dodger (3,4) |
| MAUGHAM | Paris-born British author of a number of novels including Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, The Painted Veil and Cakes and Ale (7) |
| GRAHAME | Kenneth ___, British author of the 1908 children's novel The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| DECLAIMED | Spoke convincingly about how the camel died |
| OTOSCOPE | Does the sound check - it'll give some indication of how The Hearing is going (8) |
| PREHENSILETALE | Story of how the spider monkey climbed the tree? |
| ROASTBEAST | Dish carved at the end of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" |
| INVERSE | The opposite of how the poet writes! (7) |
| SCHWAB | Author of 'How to Be Your Own Stockbroker' |
