| CARROLL | Lewis-, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's pen name (7) |
| LEWISCARROLL | Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's pen name (5,7) |
| DODGSON | Charles Lutwidge --wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (7) |
| LEWIS | Charles Dodgson's pen name (5,7) |
| TENNIEL | Dodgson's illustrator |
| SNARK | Fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem, The Hunting of the ___; Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born in Daresbury in 1832 (5) |
| ALICE | The heroine of two books by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (5) |
| THROUGHTHELOOKINGGLASS | Dodgson's work reportedly disconcerted the Mirror? |
| DICKENS | Victorian novelist Charles John Huffam, whose pen name, "Boz", was inspired by Moses in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (7) |
| HERRIOT | James --, pen name of the veterinary surgeon James Alfred Wight (7) |
| CLEMENS | Samuel Langhorne -, author who used pen name Mark Twain (7) |
| MISREAD | Wrongly interpret popular writer's pen-name, omitting 's' (7) |
| ALLONYM | Pen name (7) |
| DINESEN | Isak, pen name of the Danish author Baroness Karen Blixen (7) |
| DRSEUSS | Writer who used his actual middle name as a pen name |
| COLETTE | Pen name of the French novelist who wrote Gigi (7) |
| AMNESTY | Pardon for getting the pen name wrong, to start with (7) |
| MOLIERE | Pen name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the French dramatist who wrote Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The School for Wives and The Bourgeois Gentleman (7) |
| ROWLING | Author who wrote the Cormoran Strike trilogy comprising The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil under the pen name of Robert Galbraith (7) |
| MISHIMA | Pen name of the Japanese author who wrote Forbidden Colours and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy; a nationalist who committed seppuku in 1970 (7) |