| DAUDET | Alphonse -; author who wrote about Provencal life in Lettres de Mon Moulin (6) |
| LOVELL | Author who wrote about Beryl Markham in Straight on Till Morning, Jane Digby in A Scandalous Life and Maxine Elliott in The Riviera Set (6) |
| ERNEST | ____ Hemingway, U.S. author who wrote about his time on safari in Green Hills Of Africa (6) |
| ALCOTT | Author who wrote about fictional sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in her novel Little Women (6) |
| AUSTEN | Author who wrote about heroines including Emma Woodhouse and Elinor Dashwood in six major novels, since translated into some 40 languages (6) |
| CACHET | Lettre de cachet (6) |
| SUMACH | Hard homme de lettres climbing a tree (6) |
| AREOLA | Alphonse, French goalkeeper who joined West Ham United FC in 2022 (6) |
| DAHL | Roald -; author who wrote about his life in Boy and its continuation Going Solo (4) |
| DURRELL | Author who wrote about his childhood growing up in Corfu in books including My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (7) |
| ALLINGHAM | Author who wrote about the fictional sleuth Albert Campion in her novels including Tiger in the Smoke, The Beckoning Lady and The Mind Readers (9) |
| GRAHAME | Author who wrote about the River Bank, Wild Wood and Toad Hall in The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| GIBBONS | Author who wrote about Flora Poste, the Starkadders and "something nasty in the woodshed" in her comic novel Cold Comfort Farm (7) |
| ADAMS | Author who wrote about characters including Hazel, Blackberry, Bluebell and Dandelion in Watership Down (5) |
| KIRANDESAI | Author who wrote about loss in area kids ran amok |
| VOLTAIRE | Nom de plume of Francois-Marie Arouet, the dramatist and philosopher during the Enlightenment who wrote Lettres Philosophiques and Candide (8) |
| WILLA | Author who wrote about frontier life |
| JOYCE | Author who wrote about his homeland Ireland in novels including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (5) |
| WEBB | Author who wrote about the Shropshire countryside in novels such as Gone to Earth and Precious Bane (4) |
| HORNUNG | Author who wrote about cricket-playing gentleman thief Raffles and his sidekick Bunny in stories including The Ides of March and The Criminologists' Club (7) |
