| LITTRE | Emile -, 19th-century author of Dictionnaire de la langue francaise (6) |
| ARNOLD | 19th-century author of poems The Forsaken Merman and Dover Beach (7,6) |
| LANDOR | Nineteenth century author of "Country Gold" (6) |
| MALORY | Sir Thomas, 15th Century author of the compilation Le Morte d'Arthur (6) |
| GAWAIN | - Poet; 14th-century author of Pearl, Patience and Cleanness whose real name remains unknown (6) |
| STERNE | 18th-century author of Tristram Shandy, Laurence ___ |
| SUE | Eugene ___, 19th-century author of serial novel Les Mysteres de Paris (3) |
| MATTHEW | 19th-century author of poems The Forsaken Merman and Dover Beach (7,6) |
| SAND | George ___, 19th-century author of the novel Indiana (4) |
| GASKELL | Elizabeth, 19th-century author of North and South (7) |
| MATTHEWARNOLD | 19th-century author of poems The Forsaken Merman and Dover Beach |
| ANDERSEN | Hans Christian _, 19th-century author of fairy tales including Thumbelina (8) |
| POE | 19th-century author of creepy short stories |
| DICKENS | Charles, 19th-Century author of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations (7) |
| BALLANTYNE | RM, 19th-century author of the adventure stories Red Rooney and Philosopher Jack (10) |
| CHARLOTTEBRONTE | 19th-century author of the novels Villette and Shirley |
| SIRTHOMASMALORY | 15th-century author of Arthurian legends (3,6,6) |
| CHOC | Short word for a cacao-based food or drink prepared in the form of a bar, button, chip, coin, cup of cocoa, drop, langue de chat or truffle (4) |
| OCCITAN | Group of mediaeval dialects of S France, aka Langue d'oc (7) |
| DEQUINCEY | 19th-century writer of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater |
