| SWINBURNE | Algernon Charles - - -, English writer who invented the roundel form of verse (9) |
| READE | Charles, English author of the historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth (5) |
| ROALDDAHL | Children's book writer who invented the BFG (5,4) |
| IANFLEMING | Spy writer who invented the shaken but not stirred 007 (3,7) |
| STERNE | Serious-sounding writer who invented 28 |
| MACARONIC | Pasta originally celebrated in a form of verse (9) |
| MASEFIELD | John ---, English writer who was Poet Laureate 1930-67 (9) |
| BRACKNELL | Lady ---, aunt of Algernon Moncrieff in Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest (9) |
| LABANIMAL | The title character of "Flowers for Algernon," e.g. |
| NOVELETTE | "Flowers for Algernon," e.g. |
| ADDAMS | Author who invented the characters Morticia, Lurch and Cousin Itt (6) |
| MARGARETATWOOD | Author who invented the LongPen, a device for signing books remotely |
| BENJAMINFRANKLIN | American statesman, scientist and author who invented the lightning conductor |
| DAHL | Author who invented the word scrumdiddlyumptious (4) |
| JANEAUSTEN | English writer who appears on the back of the Bank of England's £10 note issued in 2017 (4,6) |
| PETERS | Ellis, pen name of the English writer who created the Benedictine monk Brother Cadfael (6) |
| NONSENSE | Form of verse such as Lear's The Owl And The Pussycat or Carroll's Jabberwocky |
| CLERIHEW | Form of verse member of the clergy abridged, then cut (8) |
| DARWIN | Charles, English naturalist who formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection (6) |
| WHEATSTONE | Charles, English physicist who invented the concertina (10) |
