| BULLDOGDRUMMOND | Novel by H.C. McNeile, under the pen name Sapper (7,8) |
| MCNEILE | H C -, author whose novels, including Mufti and Ronald Standish, were published under the name Sapper (7) |
| FINALCOUNT | The ?, 1926 novel by H C McNeile under the pseudonym Sapper |
| FINAL | & 18D The -, 1926 novel by H C McNeile under the pseudonym Sapper (5,5) |
| COUNT | See 14Ac, The -, 1926 novel by H C McNeile under the pseudonym Sapper (5,5) |
| WHATKATYDIDNEXT | 1886 children's book by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, under the pen name Susan Coolidge |
| FIELDING | Sometimes writing under the pen name Captain Hercules Vinegar, the author of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones whose drama The Grub-Street Opera features the ballad The Roast Beef of Old England (8) |
| TENANT | The - of Wildfell Hall ; novel by Anne Bronte under the pen name Acton Bell (6) |
| SAPPER | Pen-name of Bulldog Drummond author HC McNeile (6) |
| ROWLING | Author who wrote the Cormoran Strike trilogy comprising The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil under the pen name of Robert Galbraith (7) |
| EYRE | Jane -; novel by Charlotte Bronte under the pen name Currer Bell about an orphan raised by a resentful aunt (4) |
| GREY | The Little - Men; children's novel written by Denys Watkins-Pitchford under the pen name BB (4) |
| STEELE | A member of the Kit-Cat Club who co-founded The Spectator and wrote The Tatler under the pen name Isaac Bickerstaff (6) |
| ANNABEL | 1906 novel written by L Frank Baum, under the pen name Suzanne Metcalf, subtitled A Novel for Young Folk (7) |
| JANEEYRE | Novel by Charlotte Bronte, published in 1847 under the pen name Currer Bell (4,4) |
| ABROAD | Tom Sawyer -; novel by Samuel Langhorne Clemens under the pen name Mark Twain (6) |
| MUNRO | H.H. ___ (he wrote under the pen name Saki) |
| DAYLEWIS | UK's Poet Laureate from 1968-72 who wrote the Nigel Strangeways novels under the pen name Nicholas Blake and also The Otterbury Incident for children (3-5) |
| BRONTE | Charlotte -; the eldest of three literary sisters and writer of the novels Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette under the pen name Currer Bell (6) |
| HAMISH | Forename of constable Macbeth of Lochdubh in a series of crime novels written by Marion Chesney under the pen name M. C. Beaton (6) |
