| URIS | Guy who penned "The Haj" |
| IGOR | Guy who penned Petrouchka |
| LEONURIS | Who wrote QB VII and The Haj ? (4,4) |
| LEON | Author of the novels The Haj and QB VII (4,4) |
| ISLAM | Subject of "The Haj" |
| URI | The Haj hero |
| PILLARSOFISLAM | Five bases of faith of which the haj is one |
| JEDDAH | Port city in western Saudi Arabia where pilgrims land for the haj |
| ISABEL | Forename of the author who penned The Shooting Party and The Summer of the Royal Visit (6) |
| COLERIDGE | Lake Poet who penned The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and refers to the phenomenon known as the Brocken spectre in his 1828 piece Constancy to an Ideal Object (9) |
| ECO | Italian medievalist, semiotician and writer who penned the discourse on aesthetics On Beauty and several novels including Foucault's Pendulum and the international bestseller titled The Name of the Ro |
| CHRISTIE | Best-selling novelist of all time who penned the Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple novels as well as the world's longest-running play - The Mousetrap (8) |
| DOBBS | Life peer, novelist and politician who penned the Francis Urquhart trilogy comprising House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut (5) |
| MILNE | Author who penned the line "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart" |
| FORSYTH | Frederick - - -, bestselling thriller writer who penned The Day Of The Jackal and The Kill List (7) |
| BENSON | Mayor of Rye who penned the spooky The Room in the Tower and whose abode, Lamb House, previously occupied by Henry James, provided inspiration for his character Lucia's "Tilling" pied-a-terre Mallards |
| ELIOT | George who penned "The Mill on the Floss" |
| MUFTI | The Grand ___ Haj Amin al-Husseini (conspired with Hitler) (5) |
| SITWELL | Avant-garde poet who penned The Wooden Pegasus, Facade, Bucolic Comedies and The English Eccentrics |
| SEAN | - Penn, actor who penned the controversial novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff (4) |
