| CAXTON | Commemorated in Westminster Abbey, England's first printer who published around 100 books including an edition of The Canterbury Tales (6) |
| BRADSHAW | English printer who published the first collection of railway timetables in 1839 (8) |
| COOKSON | Author of some 100 books including The Cinder Path and those in the Tilly Trotter trilogy (7) |
| THEONCEANDFUTUREKING | TH White's 1958 Arthurian collection, including three books published around 20 years earlier |
| GUTENBERG | Beg urgent flutter on the first printer (9) |
| TINKERS | The first printers made fiddles. (7) |
| COWPER | Poet who wrote The Task and is commemorated in a stained-glass window in Westminster Abbey (6) |
| WILLIAMCAXTON | Printer who established the first printing press in England in 1477 (7,6) |
| DAHL | Author and pilot born in Llandaff around 100 years ago who wrote many popular story books including |
| CHAUCER | The Canterbury Tales author, who was the first of the poets to be buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey (7) |
| CAMDEN | Antiquary and former headmaster of Westminster School who is depicted in a bust in Westminster Abbey with one hand on his great survey Britannia (6) |
| DEAN | Author Koontz who has written more than 100 books |
| STEVENS | Signal engineer who wrote more than 100 books on railway subjects (6, 7, 4) |
| NOCK | Signal engineer who wrote more than 100 books on railway subjects (6, 7, 4) |
| WILSON | Author of some 100 books for children, including those featuring Hetty Feather and Tracy Beaker (6) |
| BEHN | England's first known professional female writer, interred in Westminster Abbey in 1689 (4) |
| APHRA | England's first known professional female writer, interred in Westminster Abbey in 1689 (5) |
| CHARLESDICKENS | Oliver Twist novelist who was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |
| OTIC | One hundred books laid on top of one's ear (4) |
| SWANSTON | Who, commemorated in a main street in Melbourne's CBD, introduced the overdraft system to Australia? |
