| JEANE | ___ Dixon, self-styled seer who wrote an astrology book for dogs |
| ARIES | Ram in an astrology book |
| BIGTHREE | Sun, moon, and rising signs, to an astrology buff |
| ZODIAC | An astrology-inspired Ford model (6) |
| ADAMSMITH | 35-year-old Washington congressman... who wrote an extremely influential 18th-century book |
| LOCKE | John ---, English philosopher; an early empiricist who wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (5) |
| MALTIN | Critic Leonard who wrote an eponymous annual movie guide for forty-five years |
| TALESE | Author who wrote an acclaimed profile of Frank Sinatra for Esquire |
| KNUSSEN | Oliver -; late composer who wrote an opera based on Maurice Sendak's children's book Where the Wild Things Are (7) |
| GIBBS | Architect who wrote an influential pattern book and designed Radcliffe Camera, St Martin-in-the-Fields, parts of Stowe, Ditchley Park, and, with Colen Campbell, Houghton Hall (5) |
| MALTHUS | Economist who wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798 |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian merchant who wrote an account of his own travels and met Kublai Khan (5,4) |
| LEE | Author who wrote an autobiographical trilogy including Cider with Rosie (3) |
| USTINOV | British actor and dramatist who wrote an autobiography entitled "Dear Me" |
| SCHILLER | German poet who wrote "An die Freude", set to music by Beethoven in his choral symphony |
| PRIESTLEY | J. B. -; novelist and dramatist who wrote An Inspector Calls (9) |
| NICOLAI | Otto ___; composer who wrote an operatic version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (7) |
| MENDELSSOHN | Surname of the German composer who wrote an overture about a natural feature of Staffa (11) |
| RILEY | Poet who wrote "An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you / Ef you / Don't / Watch / Out!" |
| RASHI | Ancient scholar who wrote an influential commentary on the Talmud |
