| HORNUNG | E W -, author of 1899 short story collection The Amateur Cracksman (7) |
| BIGGLES | Central character in 1932 short story collection The Camels Are Coming by W E Johns (7) |
| MASON | A E W -, author of the novels The Prisoner in the Opal and The Four Feathers |
| RAFFLES | Draws a classic "amateur cracksman" (7) |
| JACOBS | W W -, English author of 1902 short story collection The Lady of the Barge (6) |
| ICHABOD | Mr Crane, schoolmaster in Washington Irving's story collection The Sketch Book (7) |
| BOERWAR | African conflict of 1899-1902 |
| HILL | Author of The Woman in Black and short story collection The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read (4) |
| TWAIN | Author of the 1906 short-story collection The $30,000 Bequest (5) |
| AWDRY | Rev W, author of Thomas the Tank Engine and James the Red Engine (5) |
| KATECHOPIN | US author of 1899 novel The Awakening (4,6) |
| BOCCACCIO | Giovanni -, 14th-century Italian poet who authored short story collection The Decameron (9) |
| BAGHEERA | Black panther in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book (8) |
| BALOO | Brown bear in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book (5) |
| KAA | Python in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book (3) |
| WILSON | Sir Angus -; author of the story collection The Wrong Set and novels including The Old Men at the Zoo and No Laughing Matter (6) |
| IRVING | US author of the story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (10,6) |
| RAFFLESIA | Amateur cracksman takes one: a natural freeloader from the orient (9) |
| CHESTERTON | G K ?, author of 1911 story collection The Innocence of Father Brown |
| CONCENTRATION | Lock-up for large numbers of enemy civilians, its development was pioneered by Kitchener in the South African war of 1899-1902; the ... camp |
