| CHARTERIS | Leslie ---, author best known for creating Simon Templar, aka 'The Saint' (9) |
| TEMPLAR | Simon ___, aka The Saint (7) |
| MARQUIS | Don ___, American humorist, journalist and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel" |
| NYE | Simon ___, writer best known for creating the sitcom Men Behaving Badly |
| RICE | US author best known for creating the character of Tarzan, Edgar _ Burroughs (4) |
| SIMENON | Georges ___, Belgian writer best known for creating the detective Maigret |
| GARETH | Choirmaster best known for creating the Military Wives choir (6, 6) |
| MALONE | Choirmaster best known for creating the Military Wives choir (6, 6) |
| POLD | Winston Graham is best known for creating which character? (7) |
| MARKZUCKERBERG | American software developer best known for creating Facebook |
| SUETOWNSEND | English novelist and playwright best known for creating Adrian Mole |
| RANKIN | Although known for creating the sleuth Rebus, who also contributed to the collection Murder on Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season (2017) |
| SAYERS | Dorothy L. ---, English crime writer best known for creating fictional aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey (6) |
| ARCIMBOLDO | Giuseppe __, a 16th century Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books |
| THESAINT | Nickname of the fictional hero Simon Templar, created by British-Chinese author Leslie Charteris in the 1928 novel Meet the Tiger (3,5) |
| HERGE | Pen name of Belgian cartoonist Georges Prosper Remi, known for creating The Adventures of Tintin (5) |
| RIEU | Dutch musician known for creating the Johann Strauss Orchestra, Andre ---- (4) |
| SAINT | Simon Templar, the Leslie Charteris detective character made popular on TV by Roger Moore, is also known as the ... |
| APPLE | Known for creating the iPhone. |
| OPENAI | Which AI research and deployment company, known for creating ChatGPT and GPT models, was founded in 2015 with the mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity? (6) |
