| KIPLING | English author and poet born in India, best known for The Jungle Book and his Just So Stories (7,7) |
| RUDYARD | And 9 English author and poet born in India, best known for The Jungle Book and his Just So Stories (7,7) |
| AKELA | The chief wolf in Kipling's The Jungle Book and the name for a cub scouts leader |
| RANULPH | ____ Fiennes, explorer, writer and poet born in 1944 |
| EDGARALLANPOE | American writer and poet born Boston 1809, credited with inventing detective and science fiction genres (5,5,3) |
| MACHETE | Tool for the jungle |
| RUDYARDKIPLING | Just So Stories writer who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| HORNUNG | E W ___, English author and poet best known for stories about the gentleman thief Raffles (7) |
| WOLLSTONECRAFT | English author and philosopher (1759-97) |
| PAPERBACKWRITER | In his just published book, "The Lyrics," Paul McCartney offers details about 154 of his songs; early on he wanted to be a novelist, and for this hit imagined penning "a letter to the publishing compa |
| EMILYBRONTE | English author and poet noted for her single novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847 (5,6) |
| BLAIR | Diminutive midfielder who, at 20, won an AFL premiership in his just his 12th game for Collingwood in 2010 (5) |
| KAPOOR | Anish, British sculptor born in India in 1954 noted for his use of abstract biomorphic forms (6) |
| NESBIT | E. ---, English author and poet whose works include The Railway Children (6) |
| NEILGAIMAN | English author and screenwriter whose work The Graveyard Book won him the Newbery and Carnegie medals: 2 wds. |
| NIGELREES | English writer and broadcaster best known for devising and hosting the long-running Radio 4 panel game Quote... Unquote |
| DAVIDLODGE | English author and critic best known for his Campus Trilogy |
| VALERY | Paul, French critic and poet born in 1871 (6) |
| COCTEAU | Jean, French artist, filmmaker and poet born in 1889 (7) |
| EMPSON | William, literary critic and poet, born in 1906 (6) |
