| CARTLAND | One of the most successful authors of the 20th century who wrote more than 700 books (8) |
| GREENE | English writer, 1904-1991, regarded as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century (6) |
| ROBERTFROST | Most highly honoured American poet of the 20th century, who won the Pulitzer prize four times (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943) |
| GEORGEELIOT | English novelist from the 19th-century who wrote Middlemarch (1871-1872) |
| ROWLING | Successful author's ___ in it, you might say! (7) |
| ROSENBERG | Alfred, German Nazi politician and author of The Myth of the Twentieth Century who was hanged for war crimes in 1946 (9) |
| MACKENZIE | Royal Marines captain who wrote more than 90 books including Whisky Galore (in which his home isle Barra in the Outer Hebrides is immortalised) and The Monarch of the Glen (9) |
| STEVENS | Signal engineer who wrote more than 100 books on railway subjects (6, 7, 4) |
| NOCK | Signal engineer who wrote more than 100 books on railway subjects (6, 7, 4) |
| OSWALD | And 21 Across and 20 Down Signal engineer who wrote more than 100 books on railway subjects (6, 7, 4) |
| CHRISTIE | The Mousetrap creator who wrote The A. B. C. Murders, And Then There Were None and The Body in the Library ; one of the best-selling authors of all time (8) |
| THOMPSON | Pullein--; surname of the sisters Christine, Diana and Josephine who, between them, wrote more than 150 popular pony books for children (8) |
| GUINNESS | One of the most successful beer brands in the world, being exported worldwide (8) |
| REYNOLDS | English portrait painter of the 18th century who was the first president of the Royal Academy (8) |
| ALMANSUR | In the mid-8th century, who founded the Baghdad library and translation centre known as the House of |
| REALISTS | About directories of the most successful pragmatists |
| ROMANTIC | ____ poet, one in the early 19th century who reacted against Enlightenment ideas (8) |
| KNOPFLER | Surname of two brothers who, along with John Illsley and Pick Withers, formed the most successful band of the 1980's (8) |
| COWRITES | Is one of the authors of "Ceremonies for Barn Animals"? (2-6) |
| BUDGRANT | NFL coach whose long stint with the Vikings was the most successful period of their history: 2 wds. |
