| DONNE | John who wrote "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, |
| TONI | Morrison who wrote "Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." |
| ADAIR | Gilbert who wrote "Love and Death on Long Island" |
| CONGREVE | William ___; English dramatist who wrote Love for Love and The Way of the World (8) |
| ARTIE | Shaw who wrote "Love of My Life" |
| OVID | Ancient Roman who wrote love poems |
| MITFORD | Nancy - - -, British novelist and biographer who wrote Love In A Cold Climate (7) |
| ROBLOWE | Brat Packer who wrote "Love Life" * |
| NERUDA | Poet who wrote "Love is so short, forgetting is so long" |
| ERDRICH | Louise who wrote "Love Medicine" and "The Round House" |
| NANCYMITFORD | British novelist and biographer who wrote Love In A Cold Climate (5,7) |
| SEGAL | Erich who wrote 'Love Story' |
| ERICH | Segal who wrote "Love Story" |
| ECO | Italian who penned Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose, as well as a history on beauty (3) |
| SKINDEEP | As superficial as beauty, we're told (4-4) |
| BATHINGBELLE | Spa in Britain? Macpherson qualifies as beauty on the beach (7,5) |
| NAOMIJUDD | Country star who co-wrote "Love Can Build a Bridge" |
| PEABO | Bryson who sang on "Beauty and the Beast" Andrews McMeel |
| EUCLID | Who "alone has looked on Beauty bare," according to Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| LOOKSNAPPY | Wrapping towel on beauty, step on it (4,6) |
