| KATHERINEMANSFIELD | Author whose short story collections included Bliss and The Garden Party |
| JOHNCROWLEY | Author whose short story Spring Break won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Short Story category: 2 wds. |
| ANNIE | Pulitzer Prize winning author whose short story Brokeback Mountain was adapted into an Oscar-winning |
| ALDISS | Brian ___, English science fiction writer whose short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long was the basis for the 2001 film A I Artificial Intelligence (6) |
| WILSON | Sir Angus -, author of The Old Men at the Zoo and short story collections including A Bit Off the Map and Such Darling Dodos (6) |
| STRONG | Former director of the V&A and also the National Portrait Gallery, author of books including The Artist and the Garden, A Country Life and The Elizabethan Image (6) |
| RUNYON | Damon ?, author of the short story collections More Than Somewhat, Furthermore and Take It Easy |
| ORR | Mary whose short story "The Wisdom of Eve" was the basis of "All About Eve" |
| OHENRY | Pen name of William Sidney Porter, author of short story collections Roads of Destiny and The Four Million (1,5) |
| MANSFIELD | Pen name of the author of short stories including How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped, The Garden Party, A Cup of Tea and The Doll's House (9) |
| BRETHARTE | US writer whose short stories include The Outcasts Of Poker Flat and The Luck Of Roaring Camp (4,5) |
| ANGELACARTER | Author whose short stories in The Bloody Chamber were based on fairy tales |
| DAMON | --- Runyon, American writer whose short stories inspired the musical Guys And Dolls (5) |
| CHARTERIS | Leslie ___, author of the story collections Enter the Saint and The Brighter Buccaneer (9) |
| HAVEL | Dramatist who wrote the 1963 play The Garden Party and served as the first President of the Czech Republic (5) |
| BORGES | Jorge Luis ___, Argentinian author whose short stories are collected in Ficciones |
| YEATS | William Butler _, Irish poet and dramatist whose verse collections included 1928's The Tower (5) |
| OLIVERONIONS | Author of ghost story collections Widdershins and The Painted Face |
| KENNEDY | A L ?, author of story collections All the Rage and What Becomes |
| LARKIN | Philip ___, 20th Century poet whose verse collections included The Whitsun Weddings (6) |
