| NORTON | Author whose book The Borrowers was adapted into a series with Ian Holm and Penelope Wilton (6) |
| GRAHAME | Author whose book The Wind in the Willows was adapted into Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne and a series featuring the voices of David Jason, Michael Hordern and others (7) |
| WILDE | Author whose book The Happy Prince and Other Tales contains five stories including The Nightingale and the Rose and The Selfish Giant (5) |
| BALLANTYNE | R M ___, Scottish author whose book The Coral Island influenced R L Stevenson's Treasure Island |
| BILBO | ___ Baggins ("Lord of the Rings" character played by Ian Holm and Martin Freeman) |
| SEWELL | Author whose classic novel about Black Beauty, Merrylegs and other horses was adapted into a series with Denis King's theme tune Galloping Home (6) |
| CONROY | Pat, U.S. author whose books The Prince Of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films (6) |
| CAMERA | Word between Police and Action gives the title of a series with Alastair Stewart (6) |
| RIVALS | Jilly Cooper novel adapted into a series on Disney+ (6) |
| CLEESE | Actor who starred in a series with a waiter character who "knew nothing" (6) |
| KEENAN | Brian ___, writer whose book An Evil Cradling is an account of the years he spent as a hostage in Beirut (6) |
| AMIS | Kingsley -; author whose novel The Green Man was adapted into a series with Albert Finney (4) |
| WODEHOUSE | Author whose stories about Jeeves and Wooster were adapted into a series with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie (9) |
| LAWSON | Cookery writer whose book How to Be a Domestic Goddess includes recipes for banana bread, blackberry jam, rosemary loaf-cake, gooseberry crumble and snickerdoodles (6) |
| MANNING | Author whose Fortunes of War novels were adapted into a series with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson (7) |
| WILTON | Actress whose roles include Ann Bryce in Ever Decreasing Circles, Homily in The Borrowers and Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey (6) |
| DRAINS | Underground structures/regions that feature in Mary Norton's The Borrowers Afloat or in the film Flushed Away (6) |
| GERALD | _ Durrell, author upon whose books The Durrells is based (6) |
| ISOBEL | ___ Grey, character in Downton Abbey, played by Penelope Wilton (6) |
| OCTAVE | Avocet breaks into a series of notes |
