| KIRANDESAI | Author who wrote about loss in area kids ran amok |
| WESTSIDETYROS | Wood film about new area kids? |
| INTHEDARK | The kid ran off without being told (2,3,4) |
| PLAYROOM | Scope for drama, perhaps, where kids run free? |
| FLATBREAD | According to Spooner, kid ran off to get Nan? |
| AMOK | How some kids run |
| LOVELL | Author who wrote about Beryl Markham in Straight on Till Morning, Jane Digby in A Scandalous Life and Maxine Elliott in The Riviera Set (6) |
| DURRELL | Author who wrote about his childhood growing up in Corfu in books including My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (7) |
| ALLINGHAM | Author who wrote about the fictional sleuth Albert Campion in her novels including Tiger in the Smoke, The Beckoning Lady and The Mind Readers (9) |
| GRAHAME | Author who wrote about the River Bank, Wild Wood and Toad Hall in The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| GIBBONS | Author who wrote about Flora Poste, the Starkadders and "something nasty in the woodshed" in her comic novel Cold Comfort Farm (7) |
| DAUDET | Alphonse -; author who wrote about Provencal life in Lettres de Mon Moulin (6) |
| JOYCE | Author who wrote about his homeland Ireland in novels including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (5) |
| WEBB | Author who wrote about the Shropshire countryside in novels such as Gone to Earth and Precious Bane (4) |
| AUSTEN | Author who wrote about heroines including Emma Woodhouse and Elinor Dashwood in six major novels, since translated into some 40 languages (6) |
| DAHL | Roald -; author who wrote about his life in Boy and its continuation Going Solo (4) |
| ADAMS | Author who wrote about characters including Hazel, Blackberry, Bluebell and Dandelion in Watership Down (5) |
| HORNUNG | Author who wrote about cricket-playing gentleman thief Raffles and his sidekick Bunny in stories including The Ides of March and The Criminologists' Club (7) |
| ORCZY | Baroness Emma -; author who wrote about the swashbuckling adventures of Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (5) |
| TROLLOPE | Author who wrote about Hogglestock, Plumstead Episcopi and Puddingdale among other fictional locales in his Chronicles of Barsetshire series of novels (8) |
