| ASCH | Novelist who wrote in Yiddish |
| ELIASCANETTI | Bulgarian-born British novelist who wrote in German, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 (5,7) |
| KAFKA | Czech novelist who wrote in German (5) |
| JOSEPHCONRAD | Polish-born novelist who wrote in English (6,6) |
| WAUGH | Novelist who wrote in his satire Decline and Fall of the trials of scholar Paul Pennyfeather, wrongly sent down from Oxford after falling victim to the antics of the Bollinger Club (5) |
| MARCELPROUST | French novelist who wrote In Search Of Lost Time (6,6) |
| SCHMO | One who's foolish, in Yiddish |
| MOORE | Who wrote in his poem The Night Before Christmas: "And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The |
| GERTRUDESTEIN | Who wrote "In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling" |
| DONNE | Who wrote in his Nativity (1610) "Lay Him in this stall, and from the Orient, Stars and wise men will travel"? (5) |
| ANWARSADAT | Egyptian president who wrote "In Search of Identity" in 1978 |
| MRBELVEDERE | TV title character who wrote in a diary |
| GAELS | Ones who wrote in the Ogham alphabet |
| SONTAG | Susan who wrote "In America" |
| EMERSON | American who wrote in French, including translation of Morse |
| GENET | Man with inner energy who wrote in French? |
| CAPOTE | Truman who wrote "In Cold Blood" |
| JONES | Poet who wrote In Parenthesis (5) |
| DEFOE | One who wrote in defence of editorial sent up |
| AUDEN | Who wrote "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" |