| ATSWIMTWOBIRDS | 1939 novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien |
| CARDIACARREST | 1990s BBC medical drama series created by Jed Mercurio, writing under the pseudonym John MacUre |
| FLANNOBRIEN | Pseudonym under which writer Brian O'Nolan authored comic novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Pol |
| ALDISS | "Super-State" author Brian W. |
| ENO | "What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory" co-author Brian |
| THEBROTHER | A play by Flann O'brien...or Brian O'nolan? No matter, same fraternity. (3,7) |
| MYLES | ___ na gCopaleen and Flann O"Brien were pen-names of Brian O"Nolan. (5) |
| FIELDING | Sometimes writing under the pen name Captain Hercules Vinegar, the author of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones whose drama The Grub-Street Opera features the ballad The Roast Beef of Old England (8) |
| FLANN | ___ O'Brien, pen name of Irish novelist and journalist Brian O'Nolan |
| OBRIEN | Pen name of the Irish novelist and satirist Brian O'Nolan (5,6) (see 14D) |
| THEDARKFIELDS | 2001 science-fiction novel by Irish author Alan Glynn adapted as the film Limitless (2011), starring Bradley Cooper (3,4,6) |
| AGIRL | _ ___ is a Half-Formed Thing: award-winning novel by Irish author Eimear McBride. (1,4) |
| THESEA | 2005 Booker Prize-winning novel by Irish author John Banville (3,3) |
| NORMALPEOPLE | 2018 novel by Irish author Sally Rooney about a young couple later adapted for TV (6,6) |
| DRACULA | 1897 epistolary novel by Irish author Bram Stoker that originally pitted German professor Max Windshoeffel against Count Wampyr (7) |
| THIRD | The - Policeman; Brian O'Nolan novel (5) |
| CRUISKEEN | As Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O'Brien wrote the ____ Lawn column in the Irish Times, 1940-66 |
| COMMITMENTS | The ---, 1987 novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle (11) |
| POLICEMAN | The -, Flann O'brien novel published posthumously in 1967 (5,9) |
| ULYSSES | Novel by Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1922 (7) |