| LANDOR | Nineteenth century author of "Country Gold" (6) |
| KINGSMITH | Daily Telegraph cryptic crossword-solving author of Country Watch and Pets for Keeps whose book The Sheep-Pig was adapted into the film Babe (4-5) |
| TROLLOPE | Anthony ---, Nineteenth century author |
| BORROW | Nineteenth century writer who had to live on credit? (6) |
| BOZ | Not entirely a fool, nineteenth-century author |
| LITTRE | Emile ?, 19th-century author of Dictionnaire de la langue francaise (6) |
| ARNOLD | 19th-century author of poems The Forsaken Merman and Dover Beach (7,6) |
| MALORY | Sir Thomas, 15th Century author of the compilation Le Morte d'Arthur (6) |
| GAWAIN | - Poet; 14th-century author of Pearl, Patience and Cleanness whose real name remains unknown (6) |
| STERNE | 18th-century author of Tristram Shandy, Laurence ___ |
| MATTHEW | 19th-century author of poems The Forsaken Merman and Dover Beach (7,6) |
| SAND | George ___, 19th-century author of the novel Indiana (4) |
| GASKELL | Elizabeth, 19th-century author of North and South (7) |
| MATTHEWARNOLD | 19th-century author of poems The Forsaken Merman and Dover Beach |
| ANDERSEN | Hans Christian _, 19th-century author of fairy tales including Thumbelina (8) |
| POE | 19th-century author of creepy stories |
| SUE | Eugene -, 19th-century author of serial novel Les Mysteres de Paris |
| DICKENS | Charles, 19th-Century author of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations (7) |
| CHARLOTTEBRONTE | 19th-century author of the novels Villette and Shirley |
| BALLANTYNE | RM, 19th-century author of the adventure stories Red Rooney and Philosopher Jack (10) |
