| VITA | First name of the author who created her garden at Sissinghurst with husband Harold Nicolson (4) |
| SACKVILLEWEST | Writer who jointly created the gardens at Sissinghurst |
| OPRAH | ____ Winfrey, U.S. talk show host who created her own book club on TV in 1996 (5) |
| ANI | Singer-songwriter DiFranco who created her own record label |
| ENID | Forename of the author who created the character Velvet Brown, who wins the Grand National on a piebald horse won in a village raffle (4) |
| IRIS | Flower in a family that includes crocuses, freesias, gladioli; or, the first name of the author who wrote The Sea, The Sea (4) |
| MAYA | First name of the author who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (4) |
| ISAK | Part of the pen name of the author who also once used the pseudonym Pierre Andrezel |
| EMMA | ___ Thompson, actress who played the writer who created Mary Poppins, P L Travers, in Saving Mr Banks (4) |
| LAMB | Real name of the writer who used Elia as a pseudonym (4) |
| KENT | In which English county is Sissinghurst, where Vita Sackville-west created a garden? (4) |
| EDITH | Forename of the author who wrote The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers and also the Psammead that includes The Story of the Amulet (5) |
| ZITA | Lady Sackville-West of Sissinghurst fame (4) |
| LECARRE | Pen name of the author who created the spy character George Smiley (2,5) |
| ROALD | First name of the author who introduced Tales Of The Unexpected on ITV in the 80s (5) |
| WHITE | The ___ Garden, an area at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, with flowers of this colour! (5) |
| GALBRAITH | Pen name of the author who wrote The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and, most recently, Career of Ev |
| ISABEL | Forename of the author who penned The Shooting Party and The Summer of the Royal Visit (6) |
| NICOLSON | Author of Diaries and Letters and biographies of figures including Tennyson, Byron and Swinburne who lived at Sissinghurst Castle with his wife Vita Sackville-West (8) |
| SPILLANE | Surname of the author who created Mike Hammer |
