| KENKESEY | Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, d. 2001 (3,5) |
| KESEY | Ken, U.S. author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (5) |
| KEN | ___ Kesey, author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (3) |
| ISHIGURO | The author of one roguish novel (8) |
| MILOSFORMAN | Oscar-winning director of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus (5,6) |
| NICHOLSON | Jack ___, star of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (9) |
| DOURIF | Brad of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| HOYLE | English astronomer who rejected the "Big Bang" theory of the origins of the universe, d. 2001 (5) |
| ELENA | Author of one of The New York Times' "best books of the 21st century" ... or its narrator |
| GIDE | Andre __, French author of one of the essays in The God that Failed (4) |
| SHELLEY | Author of one of the first instances of science fiction |
| SOLZHENITSYN | Russian author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| STMARK | Author of one of the Gospels |
| WILLACATHER | Pulitzer-winning author of "One of Ours" |
| DICKENS | English author of One Pair of Hands (6,7) |
| MONICA | English author of One Pair of Hands (6,7) |
| MITCHELL | Surname of the original author of 1 Across (8) (8) |
| CUCKOOS | "One flew east, one flew west," went the children's rhyme Ken Kesey took his novel's title from, One Flew Over The ... Nest (6'1) |
| COMO | Italian lake - US vocalist, d. 2001 (4) |
| RENDELL | Ruth, author of One Across, Two Down (7) |
