| SUETOWNSEND | English novelist and playwright best known for creating Adrian Mole |
| ENID | --- Bagnold, British author and playwright best known for the 1935 story National Velvet (4) |
| JOHNOSBORNE | English playwright best known for his 1956 play Look Back in Anger (4,7) |
| ODETS | Clifford ___, American playwright best known for Waiting for Lefty |
| WILLIAMGOLDING | British novelist, poet, playwright best known for his novel Lord of the Flies |
| ALBEE | Edward ____, playwright best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| SYNGE | John Millington ___, Irish playwright best known for The Playboy of the Western World |
| FRAYN | Michael ___, British playwright best known for Noises Off |
| SOPHOCLES | One of the three great Athenian tragic playwrights, best known for Oedipus Rex (9) |
| GALSWORTHY | John _, English novelist and playwright who wrote The Forsyte Saga and its sequels (10) |
| SMITH | Dodie ---, English novelist and playwright, author of The Hundred And One Dalmatians (5) |
| DODIE | English novelist and playwright; author of The Hundred And One Dalmatians (1956) |
| MARQUIS | Don ___, American humorist, journalist and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel" |
| SAYERS | Dorothy L. ---, English crime writer best known for creating fictional aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey (6) |
| PRIESTLEY | J.B. _, English novelist and playwright who wrote An Inspector Calls (1945) |
| 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) |
| NYE | Simon ___, writer best known for creating the sitcom Men Behaving Badly |
| SIMENON | Georges ___, Belgian writer best known for creating the detective Maigret |
| POLD | Winston Graham is best known for creating which character? (7) |
