| BY | A word which can identify the author of a work |
| ROPE | A word which can be prefixed by tight, guide or tow |
| LEAF | Go through the book to see how you can identify the tree (4) |
| AESOP | Fabulous writer of a work about French art? |
| SWIFT | Quick to identify the author (5) |
| DITTO | Word which can be represented by a symbol, and can mean 'in or of the month already named', or 'in the same way, similarly' (5) |
| BEETON | Mrs -; name by which the author of a book of household management containing a large section of reci |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| ELIOT | Nicknamed "possum" by fellow poet Ezra Pound, the author of a series of "cat poems", written for his godchildren, that later formed the basis of a record-breaking musical (5) |
| ANAGRAM | A word which is formed by rearranging the letters of another (7) |
| ENID | First name of the author of a series of adventure books for children beginning with Five on a Treasure Island (4) |
| LEMONYSNICKET | Pen name of the author of "A Series of Unfortunate Events": 2 wds. |
| BARSTOW | Surname of the author of "A Kind of Loving" |
| DIONYSIUS | ---------of Halicarnassus, Greek historian and rhetorician, the author of a history of Rome (9) |
| EVELYN | Forename of the author of A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited (6) |
| ROGET | Surname of the author of a Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (5) |
| BYLINE | A line giving the name of the writer of a news story (6) |
| ADJECTIVE | A word which describes a noun (9) |
| GWB | Monogram of the author of "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" |
| SUE | Forename of the author of a diary and subsequent books featuring the character Adrian Mole (3) |
