| BOWNN | Novelist and short story writer born in Dublin in 1899 who wrote The Last September, The Death of th |
| BOWEN | Dublin-born novelist who wrote The Last September, The Death of the Heart and The Heat of the Day (5) |
| JORGELUISBORGES | Argentine short story writer born in 1899 who pioneered the magic realism literary genre (5,4,6) |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; MP and author who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword"; a friend of Disraeli and Dickens who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii (6) |
| EDNA | ___ O'Brien, Irish novelist and short-story writer born in 1930 (4) |
| KELMAN | James, Scottish novelist and short story writer born in 1946 (6) |
| SINCLAIR | Clive *****: novelist and short story writer born in 1948 (8) |
| ALBERTOMORAVIA | Italian novelist and short-story writer whose works include The Time of Indifference and The Woman of Rome |
| CELILROTH | Historian born in 1899 who was the first editor of the 'Encyclopaedia Judaica' (5,4) |
| ROSSINI | Italian composer who wrote the last of his 39 operas at the age of 37 |
| SPHERES | Ancient idea that saw the movement of the planets in the heavens as a kind of dance, the music of th |
| GUYDEMAUPASSANT | French short story writer born in 1850 whose works include Boule de Suif (3,2,10) |
| CARTER | Pen name of a novelist and short story writer whose works include The Magic Toyshop, Nights at the Circus and Shadow Dance (6) |
| POULENC | Francis, French composer born in 1899 who was a member of the group called Les Six (7) |
| CECILROTH | Historian bon in 1899 who was the first editor of the "Encyclopaedia Judaica" (5,4) |
| SOLOMON | Some of the most savage fighting in the Pacific in WWII occurred over the British protectorate of th |
| RIDGE | The Blue ___ Mountains Of Virginia, location sung about in the Laurel and Hardy song The Trail Of Th |
| SWORDIN | Merlin the magician features in the Disney animation of TH White's story, The ... The Stone (5,2) |
| THURBER | James ___, U.S. short story writer born in 1894 (7) |
| OBRIEN | Novelist and short story writer whose many works include Christmas Roses, The Country Girls, Wild Decembers and the story for children A Christmas Treat (6) |
