| TROLLOPE | Author of the Barsetshire novels |
| ANTHONYTROLLOPE | 19th-century English author best known for the novels of the Barsetshire and Palliser series (7,8) |
| THEWARDEN | First of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire novels by English author Anthony Trollope, published in 1855 (3,6) |
| THORNE | Surname of the eponymous doctor of Trollope's third Barsetshire novel (6) |
| CURATE | Profession of Josiah Crawley in Trollope's later 'Barsetshire' novels (6) |
| THIRKELL | Depicted in a painting by John Collier, author whose novels set in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire include Summer Half, Wild Strawberries and August Folly (8) |
| ANTHONY | 19th Century English novelist who created the fictional county of Barsetshire (7,8) |
| FRAMLEYPARSONAGE | Fourth novel in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire |
| SETS | Barsetshire cliques? (4) |
| BEATON | M. C. -; pen name of the author of the Hamish Macbeth series of novels such as Death of a Gossip, De |
| MASON | A E W ___, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers (5) |
| IBANEZ | Vicente Blasco ___, Spanish author of the novels Mare Nostrum and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalyps |
| ROBERTJORDAN | Late US author of the series of fantasy novels The Wheel of Time (6,6) |
| WHARTON | Edith, author of the novels The Mother's Recompense and The House of Mirth (7) |
| ALLENDE | Isabel ___, author of novels City of the Beasts and The Island Beneath the Sea (7) |
| BRONTE | and 9ac, Author of the novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (4,6) |
| ANNE | and 9ac, Author of the novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (4,6) |
| BINDLOSS | Harold, author of the novels The Girl from Keller's and The Buccaneer Farmer (8) |
| AMBLER | Eric, author of the novels Epitaph for a Spy and The Mask of Dimitrios (6) |
| STOUT | Rex ___, author of mystery novels The Broken Vase and The Hand in the Glove (5) |
