| THURBER | see 14ac, US humorist whose short stories include The Catbird Seat and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| PERRY | see 14ac, US actor who played Dylan McKay in television series Beverly Hills 90210 |
| JAMES | US humorist whose short stories include The Catbird Seat and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (5,7) |
| BRETHARTE | US writer whose short stories include The Outcasts Of Poker Flat and The Luck Of Roaring Camp (4,5) |
| EDWARDEVERETTHALE | American author, historian and Unitarian minister whose short stories include The Man Without a Country |
| RAYBRADBURY | Author whose volumes of short stories include The Illustrated Man and I Sing the Body Electric! (3,8) |
| PENN | Gangster Squad and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty actor, Sean ___ (4) |
| ENID | First name of the creator of The Famous Five and The Secret Seven (4) |
| ROBERTBENCHLEY | American humorist whose short film How to Sleep won Best Short Subject at the 1935 Oscars |
| BRADBURY | Ray ?, author whose volumes of short stories include The Illustrated Man (8) |
| BOYLE | Kay, American writer whose volumes of short stories include The Smoking Mountain (5) |
| MOVIE | Home ___ 2008 found footage film that follows the Poe family and the secret of their twins |
| RUNYON | Damon ---, American writer whose short stories inspired the musical Guys And Dolls (6) |
| DAMON | --- Runyon, American writer whose short stories inspired the musical Guys And Dolls (5) |
| CHINA | Setting of Lisa See's novel "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" |
| ENIDBLYTON | Creator of Noddy, the Famous Five and the Secret Seven |
| BURNETT | Frances Hodgson, author of children's books Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden (7) |
| ANGELACARTER | Author whose short stories in The Bloody Chamber were based on fairy tales |
| SEAT | Place for the catbird? |
| THRONE | Catbird seat |
