| ROBERTSOUTHEY | He wrote the story our disheartened bloke adapted |
| BLEAKHOUSE | Ah, bloke adapted good classic novel (5,5) |
| GYPSY | Disheartened bloke as an afterthought takes year to become a nomad (5) |
| NESBIT | Novelist who wrote The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children (6) |
| AGATHA | Forename of the "Queen of Crime" who wrote the story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas (6) |
| PRITCHETT | Author born above a toyshop who wrote the story collection You Make Your Own Life and the memoirs A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil (9) |
| TWOHY | David, US director who wrote the story for the film The Fugitive (1993) (5) |
| ARIEL | One of the Durants who wrote "The Story of Civilization" |
| ELTON | Ben, comedian who wrote the story for the Queen jukebox musical We Will Rock You (5) |
| LAURA | Subject of the unrequited love of the Italian poet Petrarch, for whom he wrote the love sonnets of the Canzoniere (1327-68) (5) |
| SPINOZA | "Perfect truth is possible only with knowledge, and in knowledge the whole essence of the thing operates on the soul and is joined essentially to it." He wrote the treatise Ethics. Who is this? |
| CICERO | He wrote "the safety of the people is the highest law" |
| CATSTEVENS | He wrote the Rod Stewart hit "The First Cut Is the Deepest" |
| AESOP | He wrote the fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper" |
| POPEYE | He wrote The Rape of the Lock and The Ancient Mariner |
| SPENGLER | He wrote "The Decline of the West" |
| LEAR | He wrote "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" |
| BEDE | He wrote the eighth century Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation |
| BOAM | He wrote the screenplay for "Indiana Jones and the last Crusade" |
| WBYEATS | Sligo's poet - he wrote 'The Wind Among the Reeds' (7) |
