| ONDAATJE | Michael, writer whose works include Coming Through Slaughter (8) |
| MARGARETMEAD | American anthropologist whose works include Coming of Age in Samoa |
| BOND | Michael -; author whose character Paddington Bear appeared in a sketch with the Queen (4) |
| PALIN | Michael ---, writer and star of 1982 film comedy The Missionary (5) |
| MISADVENTURE | Motorway bound to include coming accident (12) |
| AMOS | "My Michael" writer ___ Oz |
| CRICHTON | Michael ---, author and screenwriter whose novels include Jurassic Park and Congo (8) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ___, Russian writer whose works include A Month in the Country (8) |
| SCHWARTZ | Delmore ___, US writer whose works include 1938 volume In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (8) |
| RABELAIS | Francois ---, French Renaissance writer whose works include Gargantua And Pantagruel (8) |
| BRADBURY | Ray ---, American writer whose works include the novel Fahrenheit 451 (8) |
| TRAHERNE | Thomas, 17c English mystical prose writer whose works include Centuries of Meditations (8) |
| MOORCOCK | Michael, author of the science fiction novel The Final Programme (8) |
| MORPURGO | Michael -, author of 1982 children's novel War Horse (8) |
| CONNELLY | Michael, author of detective novels who created Harry Bosch (8) |
| NELLDUNN | Writer whose works include Up the Junction and Poor Cow |
| ZANGWILL | see 6dn, British humorist and writer whose works include the novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People and the play The Melting Pot |
| KOESTLER | Arthur ___, Hungarian-born writer whose works include the novel Darkness at Noon and The Ghost in the Machine |
| LENDEIGHTON | British military historian and writer whose works include the spy novel The IPCRESS File (3,8) |
| EDSON | J.T., western writer whose works include Waco's Debt (5) |
