| DODGSON | Charles Lutwidge --wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (7) |
| CARROLL | Lewis-, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's pen name (7) |
| ROWLING | Author who wrote the Cormoran Strike trilogy comprising The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil under the pen name of Robert Galbraith (7) |
| CHARLESLAMB | Essayist and poet who wrote under the pen name Elia (7,4) |
| LAMB | Charles -, essayist and poet Who wrote under the pen-name Elia (4) |
| EMILYBRONTE | Wuthering Heights author who wrote under the pen name of Ellis Bell (5,6) |
| KARENBLIXEN | Danish author who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen |
| BLAIR | Author who wrote under the pen name George Orwell (5) |
| EVAN | Author Hunter who wrote under the pen name Ed McBain |
| CHRISTIE | Who sometimes wrote under the pen name Mary Westmacott? (6,8) |
| AGATHA | Who sometimes wrote under the pen name Mary Westmacott? (6,8) |
| MUNRO | H.H. ___ (he wrote under the pen name Saki) |
| ROTUNDA | By the sound of it, wrote under circular building (7) |
| ENDERBY | The protagonist of a quartet of comic novels written by Anthony Burgess under the pen name Joseph Kell (7) |
| ANNABEL | 1906 novel written by L Frank Baum, under the pen name Suzanne Metcalf, subtitled A Novel for Young Folk (7) |
| THOREAU | Philosopher who wrote, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" |
| GHOSTED | Wrote under someone else's byline |
| SNARK | Fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem, The Hunting of the ___; Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born in Daresbury in 1832 (5) |
| ALICE | The heroine of two books by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (5) |
| LEWISCARROLL | Pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (5,7) |
