| ANNCLEEVES | English crime writer who created Vera Stanhope (3,7) |
| ANN | - Cleeves, English crime writer who created the characters Vera Stanhope and Jimmy Perez (3) |
| ALLINGHAM | Margery ___, English crime writer who created Albert Campion (9) |
| AGATHA | Across English crime writer who created fictional detective Miss Marple (6,8) |
| CHRISTIE | Across English crime writer who created fictional detective Miss Marple (6,8) |
| COLINDEXTER | English crime writer who created Inspector Morse (5,6) |
| RUTHRENDELL | English crime writer who created Chief Inspector Wexford |
| RENDELL | Late English crime writer who created Inspector Wexford, Ruth ------- (7) |
| LSAYERS | English crime writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane |
| DEXTER | Colin ---, English crime writer who created Inspector Morse (6) |
| DOROTHY | English crime writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane |
| AGATHACHRISTIE | English crime writer who created detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple |
| DOROTHYLSAYERS | English crime writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane (7,1,6) |
| REGINALD | ____ Hill, English crime writer who created detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe (8) |
| VERA | _ Stanhope, detective created by the English crime writer Ann Cleeves (4) |
| CREASEY | John. English crime writer who authored 1937's Meet the Baron (7) |
| LUMBERJACK | Haliburton Highlands of Ontario... Sculpture-sawing-alog artwork outside the Stanhope Heritage Museum, 'The World's Largest ___' |
| ADAMDALGLIESH | Fictional detective created by English crime writer P. D. James, appearing in 14 novels between 1962 and 2008 (4,9) |
| DOROTHYSAYERS | English crime writer (1893-1957) |
| VINE | Pseudonym used by English crime writer Ruth Rendell, Barbara _ (4) |
