| BEATON | M. C. -; pen name of the author of the Hamish Macbeth series of novels such as Death of a Gossip, De |
| HAMISH | And 22 Police Constable in novels by M.C. Beaton such as Death of a Maid (6,7) |
| MATT | Private eye in stories by Donald Hamilton such as Death of a Citizen (4) |
| HELM | Private eye in stories by Donald Hamilton such as Death of a Citizen (4) |
| SIDNEY | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| SHELDON | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| BROOKNER | Anita, English art historian and writer of novels such as Latecomers and The Next Big Thing (8) |
| ERICAJONG | US feminist writer of novels such as Fear of Flying |
| ADDER | Animal with varieties such as death, night and puff |
| MISSREAD | Pen name of the author of the Fairacre novels such as Village School, Miss Clare Remembers, Over the |
| DEKALOGY | Word, in reference to a name for the Ten Commandments, for a group of 10 related novels, such as L Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series (8) |
| HGWELLS | English novelist who wrote some of the earliest science fiction novels, such as The War of the Worlds. (1,1,5) |
| DELANY | Author of LGBT sci-fi novels such as Babel-17, also a typo of FDR's middle name |
| IVAN | First Russian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933) known for novels such as The Village (1910) and The Life of Arseniev (1927-39) (4,5) |
| BUNIN | First Russian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933) known for novels such as The Village (1910) and The Life of Arseniev (1927-39) (4,5) |
| ROMANACLEF | Type of novel such as The Bell Jar, e.g. (10) |
| FURPHY | Joseph ?, Australian author of novel Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, published in 1903 |
| CAMPUS | Latin word meaning "field" used to describe either the grounds of a university or a novel such as David Lodge's Changing Places set on and around such (6) |
| WEXFORD | Reginald -; name of the inspector in Ruth Rendell's novels such as Some Lie And Some Die, An Unkindn |
| SMOLLETT | Tobias ---, 18th Century Scottish poet and author known for novels such as The Adventures Of Roderick Random (8) |
