| NORTON | Author who wrote of the fictional Clock, Harpsichord, Overmantel, Rainbarrel and Rain Pipe families in The Borrowers (6) |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet who wrote of the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha in The Song of Hiawatha (10) |
| BLYTON | Author who wrote of the boarding school adventures of Darrell, Emily, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou and other girls in her Malory Towers books (6) |
| HORSE | Nag about the rain pipe (5) |
| CHESTERTON | Author who wrote of a tanned Daddy detective? (10) |
| JEROME | Author and humorist who wrote of the ostensible boating adventures of three fellows, and fox terrier Montmorency, in his comic novel Three Men in a Boat (6) |
| OVID | Roman poet who wrote of the art of love and seduction in his three-book elegiac Ars Amatoria (4) |
| DANTE | Poet who wrote of the nine circles of hell |
| HORNUNG | English novelist who wrote of the gentleman burglar Raffles (7) |
| NASH | Poet who wrote of the wasp, "I distrust his waspitality" |
| POLO | Explorer Marco ___, who wrote of the legendary roc: "Its quills were twelve paces long" |
| ZANE | Grey who wrote of the Old West |
| LORCA | Italian poet who wrote of the French whale (5) |
| MOWAT | Farley who wrote of the Arctic |
| SHARPE | Blott on the Landscape author who also wrote of the trials of public schoolboy Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown in Vintage Stuff (6) |
| ISAAC | Scientist who first wrote of the laws of gravitation, Sir ... Newton |
| LITTLENELL | Oscar Wilde wrote of the Dickens character, "One would have to have a heart of stone to read the dea |
| IRVING | Author "Geoffrey Crayon" who wrote of a book of sketches or stories that includes a legend about Sleepy Hollow and a tale about a henpecked husband called Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| YEATS | Irish poet and dramatist who wrote of aging in The Tower (5) |
| NIN | She wrote of the middle innings |
