| KEROUAC | Jack, U.S. novelist and leader of the Beat Movement noted for his book On the Road (7) |
| GREENWICHVILLAGE | Area on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City that was the birthplace of the Beat movement |
| SPOCK | US paediatrician noted for his book on baby and child care (5) |
| ALMAGEST | What did Ptolemy call his book on the subject of astronomy (8) |
| MOBILELIBRARY | Kerouac book On the Road here? (6,7) |
| THOREAU | Henry David, U.S. naturalist and essayist noted for his book Walden on simple living (7) |
| OLUSOGA | David, historian noted for his books and documentaries on black Britons (7) |
| AUDUBON | 19th century US ornithologist famed for his book The Birds of America (7) |
| GRISHAM | John, U.S. novelist noted for his legal thrillers (7) |
| ROETHKE | Theodore ___, American poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his book The Waking |
| BEATNIK | Member of the Beat Generation of the 1950s |
| BETROTH | Put money on U.S. novelist in pledge (7) |
| HIPSTER | Joint might take rest as a member of the beat generation (7) |
| RAWLS | John, U.S. moral and political philosopher noted for his book A Theory Of Justice (5) |
| AUSTER | Paul, U.S. novelist and essayist whose books include the New York Trilogy (6) |
| DESICA | Oscar-winning film director/actor of the Italian neorealist cinematic movement noted for films including Bicycle Thieves, Two Women and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2,4) |
| SAND | Shlomo **** , historian noted for his book 'The Invention of the Jewish People' (4) |
| BRAINE | John, English novelist noted for his book Room at the Top published in 1957 (6) |
| PRIMOLEVI | Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor noted for his book The Periodic Table (5,4) |
| ALBANY | Antiquarian remembered for his book titled Brief Lives based on the lives of eminent people of the 1 |
