| YONGE | John Keble's friend whose novel The Heir Of Redclyffe was illustrated in an edition by Kate Greenaway (5) |
| NATIONWIDE | Writer's introduction featured in an edition distributed across the country (10) |
| OBSTACLE | Hindrance alumni deal with, not Keble's first |
| AGES | "I the heir of all -in the foremost files of time." Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1842) |
| WHARTON | Edith a"; author whose novel The Age of Innocence was adapted into a film with Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis 7:A::The Phantom of the -; Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a novel by Gaston |
| HILL | Author in whose novel The Woman in Black the chilling tale of the spectral haunting of Eel Marsh unfolds (4) |
| VERNE | Author of Around the World in Eighty Days whose novel The Green Ray is named after the rare optical phenomenon of the same name (5) |
| NICHOLASMOORE | English poet whose 1944 collection The Glass Tower was illustrated by Lucian Freud |
| ISHIGURO | Author whose novel The Remains of the Day was adapted into a film by James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (8) |
| ROO | Pooh's hopping friend whose name becomes a part of a house if an M is added to the end |
| YOUNG | Poet whose Night-Thoughts was illustrated by William Blake in 1797 (5) |
| GRAY | Surgeon whose landmark treatise on anatomy was illustrated by Henry Vandyke Carter (4) |
| SEWELL | Novelist whose Black Beauty was illustrated by artists including Lionel Edwards and Cecil Aldin (6) |
| BOWEN | Author whose novel The Heat of the Day was adapted by Harold Pinter into a television film starring Patricia Hodge and Michael Gambon (5) |
| FOWLES | Author whose novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was adapted into a film by Harold Pinter in 1981 (6) |
| ANNAMAZZOLA | Author whose novel The Unseeing won the 2018 Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category: 2 wds. |
| OFLAHERTY | Irish author whose novel The Informer was adapted into a film by John Ford (1'8) |
| BANVILLE | John ___, Irish novelist whose novel The Sea won the Man Booker Prize in 2005 |
| JOHNBUCHAN | Whose novel The Thirty-Nine Steps was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935? (4,6) |
| COOPER | Author whose novel The Last of the Mohicans was adapted into a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis (6) |