| CARROLL | Lewis -; pen name of the author whose Through the Looking-Glass includes the verses Jabberwocky and The Walrus and the Carpenter (7) |
| TUMBLEDRIER | Appliance for glass includes withered key (6-5) |
| TUMBLEDRYER | Appliance for glass includes withered key (6-5) |
| LECARRE | Pen name of the author whose novels include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2,5) |
| EDITH | First name of the writer whose books include The Wouldbegoods and The Railway Children (5) |
| CONAN | One of the middle names of the author whose character Sherlock Holmes lives at 221b Baker Street (5) |
| ANGUS | Forename of the author whose story collection A Bit Off the Map includes A Flat Country Christmas (5) |
| AUSTEN | Surname of the author whose works include Pride And Prejudice and Emma (6) |
| ENID | First name of the author whose Famous Five books were originally illustrated by Eileen Soper (4) |
| PRIESTLEY | What was the surname of the author whose first names were John Boynton? (9) |
| JUBJUBBIRD | Desperate creature in Lewis Carroll's poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark |
| ELIOT | Pen name adopted by the author whose novel Middlemarch was reissued under her real name, Mary Ann Evans, earlier this year (5) |
| TSE | Monogram of the author whose poems inspired "Cats" |
| SEPTUPLE | Meter of the verses in the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" |
| SATANIC | Title of the 1988 Salman Rushdie novel that provoked a Muslim backlash, The ... Verses |
| SPARK | Informal word for an electrician or a small diamond; or, the author whose final novel was The Finishing School (5) |
| GRANT | Lytton Strachey's cousin who co-founded the Bloomsbury Group; or, the author whose Lovejoy novels were adapted into a television drama (5) |
| LODGE | Gatekeeper or gardener's cottage; a beaver's den; or, the author whose Campus Trilogy begins with Changing Places (5) |
| POEMS | "Jabberwocky" and "The Raven" |
| SEVER | Cut some of the verses out (5) |
