| LEWIS | C.S., author of The Screwtape Letters (5) |
| DEMON | Screwtape, in "The Screwtape Letters" |
| LITUP | “The Present is all _____ with eternal rays” (CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters) |
| BYATT | A S -, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden (5) |
| CSLEWIS | 'The Screwtape Letters' author |
| CSL | 'The Screwtape Letters' monogram |
| IRONIC | Unyielding in charge, like the Screwtape Letters? (6) |
| KESEY | Ken, U.S. author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (5) |
| FORESTER | C S -, author of novels The Commodore and Lord Hornblower (8) |
| THORP | Roderick, U.S. author of thriller Nothing Lasts Forever that inspired the film Die Hard (5) |
| MEGCABOT | U.S. author of The Princess Diaries (3,5) |
| COLLINS | Suzanne, U.S. author of the dystopian young adult novel series, The Hunger Games (7) |
| NAIPAUL | V.S., author of the 1971 novel In a Free State (7) |
| THOREAU | Henry David, U.S. author of the 1849 essay Civil Disobedience (7) |
| AGEE | James, U.S. author of A Death in the Family (4) |
| SINCLAIR | Upton, U.S. author of 1906 novel The Jungle (8) |
| MASTERS | Edgar Lee, U.S. author of Spoon River Anthology (7) |
| CONNELLY | Michael, U.S. author of detective novels featuring Harry Bosch (8) |
| LYMANFRANKBROWN | U.S. writer of children's books |
| NASH | U.S. writer of humorous verse |
