| MARGERYALLINGHAM | Author who created the detective Albert Campion (7,9) |
| ALLINGHAM | Margery, creator of detective Albert Campion (9) |
| AEWMASON | Triply initialled author who created the detective Inspector Hanaud (who was the template for Hercule Poirot) |
| MARSH | New Zealand author who created the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn (5,5) |
| NGAIO | New Zealand author who created the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn (5,5) |
| MICKEYSPILLANE | Author who created the detective Mike Hammer |
| POE | American author who created the detective fiction genre |
| GEORGESSIMENON | Belgian author who created the detective Maigret (7,7) |
| SARA | Author Paretsky who created the detective V.I. Warshawski |
| REX | Author Stout who created the detective Nero Wolfe |
| MICKEY | Crime writer who created the detective Mike Hammer, ... Spillane |
| GKCHESTERTON | English writer who created the detective Father Brown |
| PDJAMES | Novelist who created the detective Adam Dalgliesh |
| NGAIOMARSH | ____ created the detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn |
| ENID | Forename of the author who created the character Velvet Brown, who wins the Grand National on a piebald horse won in a village raffle (4) |
| SIMENON | Georges ---, Belgian author who created the fictional detective Maigret (7) |
| CHARTERIS | Author who created the fictional character Simon Templar, alias "The Saint" (9) |
| ERNESTBRAMAH | English author who created the blind detective Max Carrados |
| SAYERS | Author who created the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey (6) |
| PATTERSON | James _, US author who created the character of detective Alex Cross (9) |
