| KASTNER | German author of the children's books Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap (5,7) |
| ERICH | German author of the children's books Emil and the Detectives and The Parent Trap (5,7) |
| ACCIDENT | Bill the detectives and the hospital department for the mishap (8) |
| BISSET | Jacqueline ___, actress whose films include The Detective and Bullitt (6) |
| ERICHKASTNER | German author of the 1929 children's novel Emil and the Detectives (5,7) |
| BLAKE | Illustrator of many of the children's books by Roald Dahl who was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1980; or, the pop artist who co-founded the Brotherhood of Ruralists (5) |
| HOROWITZ | Anthony, author of the children's books Scorpia and Point Blanc (8) |
| JEMIMA | - Puddle-Duck; character wearing a shawl and bonnet in one of the children's books by Beatrix Potter (6) |
| TOLLER | Ernst ___, German author of the stage plays Hoppla, We're Alive and The Blind Goddess (6) |
| GOETHE | German author of the novel The Sorrows Of Young Werther (6) |
| PEPPER | Mrs ___"pot; character in the childrens books by Alf Prysen based on the adventures of an old lady who shrinks (6) |
| GRASS | Surname of the German author of The Tin Drum (5) |
| SEUSS | Middle name of Theodor Geisel, author of the children's book The Cat in the Hat (5) |
| ENGELS | German author of the unfinished 1883 work Dialectics of Nature (6) |
| SCHILLER | German author of the Wallenstein trilogy of plays, completed in 1799 (8) |
| HESSE | Hermann, German author of the novel The Glass Bead Game (5) |
| DISPOSSESS | Deprive detectives and sheriffs' men at the start of spree (10) |
| DECISIONTOLEAVE | 2022 Park Chan-wook film about a detective and the widow of a murder victim |
| AROD | Nickname of the author of the children's book "Hit a Grand Slam!" |
| ROALDDAHL | Author of the children's book "James and the Giant Peach": 2 wds. |
