| NEVILSHUTE | English novelist, author of 'On the Beach' (5,5) |
| RICHARDSON | Samuel --, English novelist, author of 'Pamela' (10) |
| READE | English novelist, author of 'The Cloister and the Hearth' (5) |
| BURGESS | English novelist, author of A Clockwork Orange (7) |
| AMBLER | English novelist, writer of the Mask of Dimitrios (1939) |
| MRSGASKELL | English female novelist, author of Cranford (3,7) |
| TROUBLESHUTE | Vex the author of "On the Beach"? |
| SHUTE | Nevil, author of On the Beach (5) |
| CLAUSEWITZ | Prussian author of "On War" |
| DARWIN | Author of On the Origin of Species whose Galapagos finches collected on his second voyage of HMS Beagle were identified by ornithological artist John Gould (6) |
| CHARLESDARWIN | English naturalist, author of On The Origin Of Species (7,6) |
| KEROUAC | Novelist and poet, 1922-1969, a leading figure in the Beat Generation, author of On the Road (7) |
| MCCARTHY | Mary --, American novelist, author of 'The Groves of Academe' (8) |
| WHARTON | American novelist, author of The Age of Innocence, d. 1937 (7) |
| REES | Author of On the Future who is the UK's Astronomer Royal (4) |
| STERNE | Irish-born novelist, author of 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy' (6) |
| KAVANAGH | Patrick --, Irish poet and novelist, author of the poem "The Great Hunger" (8) |
| JOHNBARTH | An American novelist, author of "The Floating Opera" and "Giles Goat-Boy" |
| MEREDITH | George _; English poet and novelist, author of Modern Love (8) |
| JOHNDOSPASSOS | US novelist, author of the trilogy USA (1930-36) |
