| MARKTWAIN | American author who created Tom Sawyer (4,5) |
| TWAIN | Writer who created Tom Sawyer |
| SAMUELCLEMENS | Real name of the author, publisher and lecturer who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (6,7) |
| MARK | American author who created Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (4,5) |
| LUDLUM | American author who created the character Jason Bourne (6) |
| POE | American author who created the detective fiction genre |
| EDGARRICEBURROUGHS | American author who created Tarzan |
| DIANA | American author who created the Outlander novels, _ Gabaldon (5) |
| REXSTOUT | American writer who created the fictional detective Nero Wolfe (3,5) |
| CHANDLER | Raymond _, Anglo-american writer who created fictional detective Philip Marlowe (8) |
| JOEHARPER | A friend of Tom Sawyer (3,6) |
| HANNA | Cartoonist William who co-created Tom and Jerry |
| WHITEWASH | What did Tom Sawyer dupe his friends into applying to a fence? (9) |
| HUBBARD | Lafayette Ronald ___ American author who holds the Guiness record of Most Published works by one author with 1084 books |
| LONDON | American author who chronicled abysmal conditions in this city (6) |
| COOLIDGE | American author who wrote 1872's What Katy Did, Susan _ (8) |
| SHERRYL | -- Woods, American author who also uses the name Alexandra Kirk (6) |
| TONI | American author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 (4,8) |
| MORRISON | American author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 (4,8) |
| ROBERTBLOCH | 20th Century American author who wrote the 1959 novel Psycho (6,5) |
