| INDEXCARDS | Form of stationery on which Vladimir Nabokov wrote his novels |
| PNIN | Nabokov wrote it while teaching at Cornell |
| GODOT | Waiting For -- -, Beckett play in which Vladimir and Estragon are characters (5) |
| MIRAGE | An hallucination from which Vladimir aged a little |
| ORANGES | General stationery on fourth floor, with book not necessarily incompatible with 4 (7,3,3,3,4,5) |
| ASHE | Pen name under which John Creasey wrote his Patrick Dawlish novels including A Puzzle in Pearls, A Clutch of Coppers, A Nest of Traitors and A Blast of Trumpets (4) |
| JURA | Island of the Inner Hebrides on which George Orwell wrote his 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (4) |
| GROUND | Solid surface on which Pachelbel wrote his Canon? |
| BRIGHTON | Resort town in which Graham Greene set one of his novels (8) |
| WESSEX | Area in which Thomas Hardy set many of his novels |
| THOMASJEFFERSON | Third president of the U.S. who wrote his country's Declaration of Independence (6,9) |
| ELIA | Pen name under which Charles Lamb wrote his essays including The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers (4) |
| MONTECASSINO | Site of the monastery where St Benedict wrote his "rule" |
| MOZART | Composer who wrote his first concerto at the age of five |
| OWL | Christopher Robin's wrote his heart where his head should be (3) |
| DESIGNED | Planned from French and wrote his name on it (8) |
| LOLITA | Which novel by Vladimir Nabokov featured a character called Vivian Darkbloom, an anagram of 'Vladimir Nabokov ? (6) |
| ISHIGURO | Nobel Prize-winning author knighted in February this year, his novels include An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| MELVILLE | Author whose first-hand experiences on a whaling ship formed the basis of his novels including Moby-Dick and Omoo (8) |
| JAMESBALDWIN | Expat Afro-American poet who spent much of his life in Paris. His novels, essays, and activism solidify him as a crucial figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement. |
