| NICKHORNBY | Novelist who wrote "About a Boy" and "High Fidelity" |
| HORNBY | English novelist Nick who wrote "About a Boy" |
| OBELI | Old boy and high priest at daggers drawn |
| JOHNCUSACK | US actor whose films include Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity |
| KAFKA | Czech novelist who wrote about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924) (5) |
| DAHL | Author who wrote about a magical peach lifted by a flock of gulls, a chocolate factory, a cunning anthropomorphic fox and a girl with telekinetic powers (4) |
| MAYNE | One who wrote about a year in Marrakesh and Tyneside (5) |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet who wrote about a blacksmith, an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the wreck of the Hesperus (10) |
| LEHAR | Famed Hungarian operetta king who wrote about a wealthy vivacious merry widow who likes to sing (5) |
| ELIA | Lamb who wrote about a pig |
| HUME | Philosopher David who wrote about a "missing shade of blue" |
| MILNE | Person who wrote about a bear student found in pit (5) |
| ARISTOPHANES | Greek who wrote about a senatorship (12) |
| ROUSSEAU | Philosopher who wrote about a social contract |
| WILLIAMSON | English novelist who wrote about the countryside in his A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series, Tarka the Otter, Life in a Devon Village and many more (10) |
| HEYER | Novelist who wrote about the likes of a beau, buck, Corinthian, country vicar's daughter, lady of quality and a viscount, among other characters, in her pioneering Regency romances (5) |
| STEINBECK | John -; novelist who wrote about characters George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men (9) |
| BAUM | Novelist who wrote about the Land of Oz and its brainless scarecrow, Emerald City, magical silver shoes, Munchkins and yellow brick road, among other things (4) |
| AUSTEN | Jane -; novelist who wrote about the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility (6) |
| GENTLE | Word that when followed by Ben gives the title of a 1960s series about a boy and a bear (6) |
