| LYLY | John ___, English writer (4) |
| MASEFIELD | John _, English writer; Poet Laureate (1930-67) |
| WYNDHAM | John ___, English author of science fiction novels; The Day of the Triffids (1951) |
| BYNG | John ___, English admiral executed in 1757 after failing to relieve Minorca (4) |
| NASH | John _, English architect who designed London's Marble Arch (4) |
| HURT | Sir John _, English actor who starred in the 1980 film The Elephant Man (4) |
| STOW | John ___, English antiquary, whose Survey of London 1598 remains an important source on Elizabethan life and times (4) |
| VENN | John ___, English logician for whom a diagram is named |
| LEAR | Edward ___, English author of A Book of Nonsense (1845) and Laughable |
| MCEWAN | Ian _, English writer whose novels include Amsterdam (1998) |
| CHESTERTON | G. K. ___, English writer (10) |
| BLYTON | Enid ___, English writer of children's books (6) |
| MEREDITH | George ___, English writer, 1828-1909 (8) |
| GREENE | Graham ___, English writer of The Third Man (6) |
| BENNETT | Alan ___, English writer whose works include the plays The Madness Of George III and The History Boys (7) |
| HOLTBY | Winifred ___, English writer best known for her novel South Riding (6) |
| ORWELL | George ___, English writer whose novels include 1984 and Animal Farm (6) |
| SHAKESPEARE | William ___ English writer whose books have sold more than 2 billion copies |
| DEFOE | Daniel _, English writer whose most famous work was the novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) |
| MARTINEAU | Harriet ___, English writer and author of Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-34) |
