| HEMINGWAY | Ernest ---, American writer and journalist whose works include the 1940 novel For Whom The Bell Tolls (9) |
| CLAPPER | Applaud softly before Queen makes the bell toll (7) |
| HARRIS | Frank, writer and journalist whose autobiography My Life and Loves was banned (6) |
| BILLBUFORD | American author and journalist to whom Salman Rushdie dedicated his 2008 novel The Enchantress of Florence |
| MITCHELL | Margaret ---, American author and journalist who wrote Gone With The Wind (8) |
| TOMWOLFE | Late American author and journalist (3,5) |
| EPHRON | Nora ___, American writer and director whose works include the screenplay for When Harry Met Sally... (6) |
| JAMESBALDWIN | American author and civil rights campaigner whose works include the autobiographical novel Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| GEORGEARNOLD | American author and poet whose works include the humorous poem The Jolly Old Pedagogue |
| STOCKTON | Frank R. --, American writer and humorist, author of the novel 'The House of Martha' (8) |
| SHELSILVERSTEIN | American writer and cartoonist remembered for his stories and poems for children (4,11) |
| RAND | Last name of the Russian-born American writer and philosopher who gained fame with her novel The Fountainhead (1943) |
| CAPOTE | Truman ---, 20th-Century American writer and actor whose works include Breakfast At Tiffany's (6) |
| ADAM | American writer and director of the films The Big Short, Vice and Don't Look Up (4,5) |
| MCKAY | American writer and director of the films The Big Short, Vice and Don't Look Up (4,5) |
| BURNETT | Frances Hodgson ---, British-American author and playwright whose works include The Secret Garden (7) |
| SELF | Will _, author and journalist shortlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize for Umbrella (4) |
| GLORY | The Power and the -; 1940 novel by Graham Greene (5) |
| STEIN | Surname of American writer and eccentric; her Paris home was a salon for leading writers and artists between the two world wars (5) |
| JOEL | American writer and prophet, supplier for boats on the Tweed (4,8,6) |
