| GATISS | Mark ___, actor-writer; author of 2004 novel The Vesuvius Club (6) |
| MARKGATISS | Actor-writer; author of 2004 novel The Vesuvius Club (4,6) |
| MURPHY | Travel writer, author of Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle (1965) (6,6) |
| DERVLA | Travel writer, author of Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle (1965) (6,6) |
| THOMAS | English writer, author of Le Morte D'arthur (3,6,6) |
| MALORY | English writer, author of Le Morte D'arthur (3,6,6) |
| RUNYON | A. Damon --, US short-story writer, author of 'Guys and Dolls' (6) |
| TIMDEE | UK nature writer, author of The Running Sky (3, 3) |
| EGGERS | Dave ?, author of 2004 short story collection How We Are Hungry (6) |
| JORDON | Mark ___, actor who plays Emmerdale village resident and brother of 9A (6) |
| STRONG | Mark ___, actor who plays Merlin in the Kingsman franchise (6) |
| JORDAN | Mark ___, actor who plays Dan Spencer's brother Daz in Emmerdale (6) |
| ROLAND | "The Death of the Author" author Barthes |
| ROBINSON | Marilynne ?, author of 2004 novel Gilead; winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| TALESE | "Origins of a Nonfiction Writer" author |
| MANKELL | Henning, author of the 2004 novel The Return of the Dancing Master (7) |
| SCRIBE | Writer, author |
| JOHNWYNDHAM | 20th Century British science-fiction writer, author of The Day Of The Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos (4,7) |
| EHRENBURG | Ilya, Soviet writer, author of the novel The Thaw (9) |
| ALICEWALKER | US activist and writer, author of acclaimed The Color Purple (5,6) |
