| ANNCLEEVES | Creator of the literary detectives Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez |
| ANN | - Cleeves, English crime writer who created the characters Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez (3) |
| DICKENSIAN | Literary detectives set up man and woman |
| STOWE | Surname of the creator of the literary slaves Topsy and Eliza (5) |
| WAUGH | Creator of the literary characters William Boot and Sebastian Flyte |
| JOHNGALSWORTHY | Creator of the literary character Soames Forsyte (4,10) |
| LAWRENCE | Creator of the literary character Oliver Mellors (8) |
| SHETLAND | What is the Scottish TV crime drama (from 2013). based on the novels by Ann Cleeves and originally starring Douglas Henshall as DI Jimmy Perez? (8) |
| EMILE | French novelist and practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, _ Zola (5) |
| CLEEVES | Ann ___ , English author who wrote the Shetland crime novels featuring Detective Jimmy Perez (7) |
| HENSHALL | Douglas -, actor who played DI Jimmy Perez in the TV series 'Shetland' (8) |
| MAN | The ___ Booker Prize is one of the literary world's most prestigious awards. (3) |
| ELITE | The pick of the literary circle (5) |
| BRONTE | Surname of the literary siblings Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne (6) |
| SCI | The "S" of the literary genre "SF": Abbr. |
| GUERNSEY | Island location of the Literary And Potato Peel Society (8) |
| RHETORIC | Art of the literary use of language (8) |
| SITWELL | Surname of the literary siblings Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell (7) |
| ANNAS | Christie and Karenina of the literary world |
| LUMBERJACK | Haliburton Highlands of Ontario... Sculpture-sawing-alog artwork outside the Stanhope Heritage Museum, 'The World's Largest ___' |
