| OGDENNASH | Humorist who wrote "Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker" |
| NASH | Ogden ---, humorist who wrote: "Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker" |
| OGDEN | First name of the poet who wrote "Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker" |
| LIQUOR | Ogden Nash wrote that "Candy / is dandy / But ____ / is quicker" |
| QUICKER | 'Candy/Is dandy/ But liquor/Is ___': 10, 22 across (7) |
| PGWODEHOUSE | Humorist who wrote "Golf Without Tears" |
| MARKTWAIN | Humorist who wrote the off-color satire "1601" |
| EDWARDLEAR | Humorist who wrote A Book of Nonsense (6,4) |
| HERBERT | Humorist who wrote for Punch and contributed towards the reform of several divorce laws (7) |
| JEROME | Author and humorist who wrote of the ostensible boating adventures of three fellows, and fox terrier Montmorency, in his comic novel Three Men in a Boat (6) |
| DOROTHYPARKER | Writer, critic, and humorist who is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City: 2 wds. |
| PUNSTER | Would-be humorist who calls a Nazi nasty? |
| SATIRIST | Humorist who uses ridicule, irony and sarcasm (8) |
| AAMILNE | English humorist who created Winnie-the-Pooh (1,1,5) |
| WAG | Humorist who won't keep still? |
| BIERCE | US humorist who compiled The Devil's Dictionary |
| JBMORTON | Humorist who used the pen name Beachcomber |
| BLINKOFANEYE | "The story of life is quicker than the ___, the story of life is hello, goodbye." Jimi Hendrix (5,2,2,3) |
| FASTEST | Female when given exam is quicker than all the others |
| ACCELERATOR | When depressed, movement is quicker (11) |
