| THENI | 'And -- wrote...' |
| BENELTON | British comic, writer and director who co-wrote Blackadder and wrote We Will Rock You (3,5) |
| DERRIDA | Exponent of deconstructionism who taught philosophy at the Sorbonne and wrote Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference (7) |
| JEKYLL | Arts and Crafts landscape architect and plantswoman who lived at Munstead Wood, collaborated with Edwin Lutyens and wrote Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden (6) |
| RAMSAY | Wig-maker and poet who founded Britain's first circulating library and wrote the The Gentle Shepherd and compilation of Scots songs The Tea- Table Miscellany (6) |
| BRECHT | German playwright and poet, 1898-1956, who co-wrote The Threepenny Opera and wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle (6) |
| EDWARDLEAR | Author and poet who popularised limericks and wrote The Owl and The Pussycat (6,4) |
| BLOM | Which English critic edited the fifth edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians and wrote |
| MUIR | English comedy writer and raconteur who was a long-standing team captain on Call My Bluff and wrote |
| FINCH | Poet who held the title Countess of Winchilsea and wrote A Letter to Daphnis, A Nocturnal Reverie, To the Nightingale and The Owl Describing her Young Ones (5) |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Art historian and politician who built Strawberry Hill and wrote the novel The Castle Of Otranto (6,7) |
| COBBETT | William ___, English journalist and social reformer who founded The Political Register and wrote Rural Rides |
| REID | Poet who edited Selected Letters of Ted Hughes and wrote books or collections including A Scattering, The Song of Lunch and Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs (4) |
| BROOKE | Poet who counted Winston Churchill, W. B. Yeats and Virginia Woolf among his friends and wrote The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (6) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| GUNN | Who was born in Melbourne in 1870 and wrote The Little Black Princess (1905) and We of the Never-Never (1908) (4) |
| TOLSTOY | Who left university without a degree and wrote the masterpiece War and Peace (1869)? (7) |
| LEACH | Which English potter reinvigorated pottery by introducing oriental design, techniques and glazes at his St Ives pottery and wrote A Potter's Book (1945) |
| CARLA | Screenwriter who created and wrote sitcoms including Butterflies and Bread, _ Lane (5) |
| VERSED | Skilled and wrote poems (6) |
