| ORCZY | Novelist who wrote about an elusive, quick-thinking swordsman and escapeartist in The Scarlet Pimpernel (5) |
| ADAMSMITH | Economist who wrote about an "invisible hand" |
| DOBRO | Legendary Spanish swordsman, and an award-winning variety of dahlia (5) |
| GRAHAME | Novelist who wrote about the adventures of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Mr Toad in the classic family favourite The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| 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) |
| HARDY | Dorset novelist who wrote about his fictional land Wessex in Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and other books (5) |
| NESBIT | Novelist who wrote about fictional siblings Roberta, Peter and Phyllis in the classic tale The Railway Children (6) |
| EDITH | First name of the novelist who wrote about siblings Peter, Phyllis and Roberta in The Railway Children (5) |
| AUSTEN | Jane -; novelist who wrote about the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility (6) |
| TWAIN | Pen name of the novelist who wrote about the adventures of characters Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (5) |
| BUCHAN | John -, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir; novelist who wrote about character Richard Hannay in The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle (6) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| FAULKNER | William ..., US novelist who wrote about people in the southern states (8) |
| COOPER | Jilly -; novelist who wrote about characters including Rupert Campbell-Black, Billy Lloyd-Foxe and Jake Lovell in Riders (6) |
| PASSAGE | Northwest ___, an elusive and deadly Arctic route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the novelist who wrote about characters including carpenter Adam Bede, watchmaker Felix Holt and miller's daughter Maggie Tulliver (5) |
| KAFKA | Czech novelist who wrote about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924) (5) |
| BALLANTYNE | Victorian adventure novelist who wrote about Barbary pirates, coral islands, Cornish mines, gorilla hunters and many other things (10) |
