| LYTTON | 1st Baron ___; title of the novelist and dramatist whose 1839 play Richelieu contains the line "the pen is mightier than the sword" (6) |
| RAYLEIGH | 3rd Baron ___; title of John Strutt, scientist awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics with William Ramsay for his part in the discovery of argon (8) |
| TWEEDSMUIR | Baron _, title created in 1935 for the author and politician John Buchan (10) |
| PEACOCK | Male of the national bird of India; or, the novelist and poet who wrote Nightmare Abbey (7) |
| DORCHESTER | Sir Guy Carleton, 1st Baron ___ (b.1724 - d.1808 ...Governor in colonial Canada) |
| TOSCANINI | Anais, the novelist, and Arachne support opera conductor (9) |
| SIAM | Anna and the King of ___ (title of the novel The King and I is based on) |
| GALSWORTHY | Novelist and dramatist whose The Forsyte Saga earned him the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature (10) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul ___, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist whose works include Being and Nothingness and Nausea |
| GIRAUDOUX | Jean, French novelist and dramatist whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot (9) |
| FINNEGANSWAKE | 1939 novel which contains the line 'They lived and laughed and loved and left' |
| BYRON | John ___, 1st Baron, the leader of Royalist forces against the Parliamentarians in the 1644 Battle of Nantwich during the First English Civil War (5) |
| BURGHLEY | 1st Baron -; title of Elizabeth I's Lord High Treasurer William Cecil who built and lived in the prodigy house in Stamford with the "Hell Staircase" and "Heaven Room" (8) |
| IVY | Forename of the novelist Dame Compton-Burnett, who penned Brothers and Sisters, Men and Wives and Pastors and Masters (3) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ___, Russian novelist and dramatist whose plays include A Month in the Country (8) |
| LONGFELLOW | Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the shaded squares |
| BINYON | Poet whose ode For the Fallen contains the line "We will remember them" (6) |
| BAA | First word of the nursery rhyme that contains the line Have you any wool? |
| BRABANT | Duke or Duchess of ____ , title of the heir or heiress presumptive to the Belgian throne (7) |
| EDITH | Forename of the novelist Wharton who drew inspiration from her experiences within the elite circles of New York's high society during the Gilded Age, becoming the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize ( |
