| TALESOFATRAVELLER | Collection of essays and short stories by Washington Irving, using the pen name Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (5,2,1,9) |
| SKETCHBOOK | The - - of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent; collection of essays and stories by Washington Irving (10) |
| REACHER | Jack - - -, character in books and short stories by Lee Child who's been played twice on the big screen by Tom Cruise (7) |
| BILLYBUNTER | Fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton, using the pen name Frank Richards (5,6) |
| COPYEDIT | Managed to pen end of essay and it is ready for printing (4-4) |
| SKETCH | The ___ of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, collection of essays by Washington Irving first published in 1819 |
| BOOK | The - of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, collection of essays by Washington Irving first published in 1819 (6,4) |
| ICHABODCRANE | Schoolmaster in 1820 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (7,5) |
| IRVING | With pen names including Diedrich Knickerbocker and Geoffrey Crayon, the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| RIPVANWINKLE | Who, in a story by Washington Irving, went to sleep a subject of George III and woke much later as a citizen of the United States? (3,3,6) |
| ARISTOS | The ___; 1964 collection of essays by The Magus and The French Lieutenants Woman author John Fowles (7) |
| CHARTERIS | Leslie ---, author of a series of novels and short stories about Simon Templar, The Saint (9) |
| HOLLOW | The Legend of Sleepy ___ (1820 short story by Washington Irving) |
| SLEEPY | 1820 short story by Washington Irving, The Legend Of _ Hollow (6) |
| SIGHTLINES | 2012 collection of essays by poet and nature writer Kathleen Jamie that was a Radio 4 Book of the Week |
| VIWARSHAWSKI | Fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories written by Sara Paretsky, played on film by Kathleen Turner |
| JOHNSON | Written about in James Boswell's Life, author of the Rambler essays and A Dictionary of the English Language who founded a literary club with Joshua Reynolds (7) |
| WASHINGTONIRVING | As Geoffrey Crayon, ____ wrote a Sketch Book with stories including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| LEGEND | The ___ of Sleepy Hollow, story by Washington Irving |
| VANWINKLE | 1819 short story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years (3,3,6) |
