| WHATKATYDIDNEXT | 1886 children's book by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, under the pen name Susan Coolidge |
| DID | What Katy -; 1872 classic children's book by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name Susan Coolidge (3) |
| SUSAN | _ Coolidge, the pen name of What Katy Did author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (5) |
| COOLIDGE | The pen name of What Katy Did author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, Susan _ (8) |
| WHATKATY | & 14A 1886 children's book by Susan Coolidge (4,4,3,4) |
| DIDNEXT | 1886 children's book by Susan Coolidge (4,4,3,4) |
| 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) |
| ROWLING | Author who wrote the Cormoran Strike trilogy comprising The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil under the pen name of Robert Galbraith (7) |
| STEELE | A member of the Kit-Cat Club who co-founded The Spectator and wrote The Tatler under the pen name Isaac Bickerstaff (6) |
| KATYCARR | Protagonist of a series of books by Susan Coolidge (4,4) |
| WHATKATYDID | Which 1872 novel by Susan Coolidge became a perennial favourite of girls? (4,4,3) |
| MOORLAND | - Mousie; book for children written by Muriel Wace under the pen name Golden Gorse (8) |
| TENANT | The - of Wildfell Hall ; novel by Anne Bronte under the pen name Acton Bell (6) |
| GREY | The Little - Men; children's novel written by Denys Watkins-Pitchford under the pen name BB (4) |
| KATYDID | 1872 novel by Susan Coolidge (4,4,3) |
| WHAT | 1872 novel by Susan Coolidge (4,4,3) |
| EYRE | Jane -; novel by Charlotte Bronte under the pen name Currer Bell about an orphan raised by a resentful aunt (4) |
| DAYLEWIS | UK's Poet Laureate from 1968-72 who wrote the Nigel Strangeways novels under the pen name Nicholas Blake and also The Otterbury Incident for children (3-5) |
| BRONTE | Charlotte -; the eldest of three literary sisters and writer of the novels Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette under the pen name Currer Bell (6) |
| EVENTS | A Series Of --- ---, children's book series written by Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket (11,6) |