| SAYERS | Dorothy L. ---, English crime writer best known for creating fictional aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey (6) |
| REGINALDHILL | English crime writer best known for the Dalziel and Pascoe series (1970-2009) (8,4) |
| PETERWIMSEY | Nobleman and amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers who first appeared in the novel Whose Body? (5,6) |
| MARQUIS | Don ___, American humorist, journalist and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel" |
| SUETOWNSEND | English novelist and playwright best known for creating Adrian Mole |
| VALMCDERMID | Scottish crime writer best known for a series of novels featuring Dr Tony Hill |
| RANKIN | Ian ___, Scottish crime writer best known for his Inspector Rebus novels |
| SIMENON | Georges ___, Belgian writer best known for creating the detective Maigret |
| NYE | Simon ___, writer best known for creating the sitcom Men Behaving Badly |
| ARCIMBOLDO | Giuseppe __, a 16th century Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books |
| CHARTERIS | Leslie - - -, author best known for creating Simon Templar, aka 'The Saint' (9) |
| POLD | Winston Graham is best known for creating which character? (7) |
| GARETH | Choirmaster best known for creating the Military Wives choir (6, 6) |
| MALONE | Choirmaster best known for creating the Military Wives choir (6, 6) |
| RICE | US author best known for creating the character of Tarzan, Edgar _ Burroughs (4) |
| MARKZUCKERBERG | American software developer best known for creating Facebook |
| ALBERTCAMPION | Fictional gentleman sleuth in 18 novels by English crime writer Margery Allingham (1904-1966) (6,7) |
| OPENAI | Which AI research and deployment company, known for creating ChatGPT and GPT models, was founded in 2015 with the mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity? (6) |
| ADAMDALGLIESH | Fictional detective created by English crime writer P. D. James, appearing in 14 novels between 1962 and 2008 (4,9) |
| AGATHA | Across English crime writer who created fictional detective Miss Marple (6,8) |
