| ELJAMES | British author of erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey (1,1,5) |
| OVID | Roman writer of erotic verse |
| MAUGHAM | Paris-born British author of a number of novels including Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, The Painted Veil and Cakes and Ale (7) |
| FREEDOM | Work formed source of erotic novel |
| MURDOCH | British author of novels including A Severed Head (1961) (7) |
| BAGNOLD | British author of the 1935 story National Velvet (4,7) |
| DURRELL | Gerald -------, late British author of My Family and Other Animals (7) |
| MRJAMES | Acclaimed British author of ghost stories |
| LECARRE | John - - - - - -, British author of espionage novels including The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (2,5) |
| FLEMING | British author of Goldfinger, Ian ... |
| GRAHAME | Kenneth ___, British author of the 1908 children's novel The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| CANETTI | Bulgarian-born British author of novels including Auto-da-Fe (1935) and Crowds and Power (1960); Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 (7) |
| DICKENS | British writer of novels including Little Dorrit and Bleak House (7) |
| TOLKIEN | British writer of fantasies |
| GOGOL | Author's description of erotic dancer, live (5) |
| DECAMERON | Anthology of erotic stories needed to remove former British PM (9) |
| DESEX | Deprive of erotic character of some renegade sexagenarians! (5) |
| BLACKMAN | Malorie ---, British author of the Noughts & Crosses series of young adult novels (8) |
| WILL | British author of novels including 2006's The Book Of Dave, _ Self (4) |
| GOGO | Kind of erotic dancing (2-2) |
