| UMBERTOECO | Italian author of The Name of the Rose |
| ECO | Italian author of The Name of the Rose |
| UMBERTO | - Eco, Italian author of The Name of the Rose (7) |
| LEVI | Primo, Italian author of the 1956 volume of memoirs The Periodic Table (4) |
| BUZZATI | Dino, Italian author of the novel The Tartar Steppe (7) |
| MORAVIA | Alberto, Italian author of The Time of Indifference (7) |
| SVEVO | Italo, Italian author of the novel Confessions of Zeno (5) |
| CALVINO | Italo ___, Italian author of the novels Invisible Cities and The Nonexistent Knight (7) |
| DANTE | Italian author of "The Divine Comedy" |
| MARINETTI | Filippo ____, Italian author of the Futurist Manifesto in 1909 |
| BOCCACCIO | Italian author of The Decameron (9) |
| LAMPEDUSA | Italian author of The Leopard (9) |
| DIERI | What is one of the spellings of the name of the Australian Aboriginal people of the Cooper Creek dis |
| DRUG | Medical substance created by swapping out the second letter of the name of one of this puzzle's constructors for the second letter of the other |
| PIRANDELLO | Luigi ___, Italian author of works including The Turn (novel, 1902) and Six Characters in Search of an Author (play, (1921); Nobel Prize for Literature (1934) (10) |
| UGOBETTI | Italian author of plays including Corruzione al Palazzo di Giustizia (Corruption in the Palace of Justice, 1949) and La fuggitiva (The Fugitive, 1953) (3,5) |
| EDDY | - the Fair; modernisation of the name of the eldest son of Edmund I who was approximately 15 years o |
| BETHLEM | A variation of the name of England's first hospital for people with mental illnesses, part of the hospital's presentday name (7) |
| MITHRAS | Greek form of the name of the god of light identified with the sun in Persian mythology |
| MATE | Friend, as in the centre of the first part of the name of this magazine! (4) |
