| BEETON | Mrs -; Victorian author who wrote a bestseller containing some 2,000 recipes (6) |
| ARTHUR | Victorian author who created the Sherlock Holmes stories (6,5,5) |
| GIBBON | Author who wrote A Scots Quair - a trilogy consisting of Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite (6 |
| FRASER | George MacDonald, British author who wrote a series of novels about Harry Flashman (6) |
| AMOSOZ | Israeli author who wrote "A Tale of Love and Darkness" |
| BORROW | What one may do at the library with the works of a Victorian author? |
| SMILES | Samuel ____, Scottish Victorian author noted for his book Self-Help that promoted thrift (6) |
| LYTTON | Victorian author's only novel, about abstainer (6) |
| WILKIECOLLINS | Victorian author who wrote The Woman in White (6,7) |
| SESAME | Small de-husked seed containing some aromatic matter initially mentioned in famous opening phrase (6) |
| BILGES | Low parts of ships, often containing some dirty water (6) |
| DARWIN | Charles ****** . Victorian author on evolution (6) |
| READER | Victorian author's given queen an academic book |
| RUSKIN | Sport to hide Victorian writer on art (6) |
| SCHISM | Basket or vessel containing some wine (6) |
| JASPER | Stone jar containing some specimens (6) |
| ARARAT | Mount art containing some Arabic letters (6) |
| PIECES | Portions of pies containing some spice (6) |
| GEORGE | --- Eliot, Victorian author |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the Victorian author who wrote The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda (5) |
