| CRAIS | Award-winning detective fiction writer Robert |
| CONAN | Pulp fiction writer Robert E Howard creation, ... The Barbarian |
| OLEN | Decorated fiction writer Robert ___ Butler |
| SHAMUS | Best detective fiction writer's award |
| CHANDLER | Raymond ..., British-American detective fiction writer (8) |
| ERLE | Detective-fiction writer ___ Stanley Gardner |
| ARTHURCONANDOYLE | Detective fiction writer who dismissed W G Grace with his only first-class wicket |
| SARA | Detective fiction author Paretsky |
| SAYERS | Detective fiction author, d. 1957 (6) |
| ELLERYQUEEN | Pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee (6,5) |
| CARO | Pulitzer-winning writer Robert, famous for his four-book series on Lyndon Johnson |
| SPIKE | Anglo/Irish comedian, writer and actor, a principal member of The Goons comedy team, who first came to Mallorca in the 1960s to visit his friend the writer Robert Graves in Deia, and returned several |
| MILLIGAN | Anglo/Irish comedian, writer and actor, a principal member of The Goons comedy team, who first came to Mallorca in the 1960s to visit his friend the writer Robert Graves in Deia, and returned several |
| YALE | Alma mater of "Avenue Q" co-writer Robert Lopez |
| PRESNELL | Writer Robert or singer Harve |
| LUDLUM | Spy writer, Robert ... |
| LOUIS | Writer, Robert ... Stevenson |
| STEVENSON | Treasure Island writer, Robert Louis ... |
| GRAVESEND | Writer Robert has objective in Kent town (9) |
| AVALE | "Do I view the world as _ ___ of tears?" (Bit of 19th-century British writer Robert Browning's poem |
