| ISAKDINESEN | One of the pen names of Karen Blixen, author of 'Out of Africa' (4,7) |
| ISAK | Part of the pen name of the author who also once used the pseudonym Pierre Andrezel |
| BRONTESISTERS | They used the pen names Acton, Currer, and Ellis Bell |
| MYLES | ___ na gCopaleen and Flann O"Brien were pen-names of Brian O"Nolan. (5) |
| DINESEN | Isak ___, pseudonym of Karen Blixen; author of the memoir Out of Africa (7) |
| KARENBLIXEN | Author of Out of Africa |
| ELLISPETERS | What is the pen-name of Edith Pargeter, author of the Brother Cadfael mysteries? (5,6) |
| JOHNLECARRE | The pen name of the author famous for Tinker. Tailor. Soldier. Spy, Smiley's People. etc. (4,2,5) |
| EMILYBRONTE | Wuthering Heights author who wrote under the pen name of Ellis Bell (5,6) |
| BLIXEN | The author of Out of Africa (6) |
| STAN | The name of Karen Walker's unseen husband in the classic US sitcom Will & Grace (4) |
| ROWLING | Author who wrote the Cormoran Strike trilogy comprising The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil under the pen name of Robert Galbraith (7) |
| IRVING | With pen names including Diedrich Knickerbocker and Geoffrey Crayon, the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle (6) |
| SWIFT | With pen names including the Drapier, Isaac Bickerstaff and Simon Wagstaff Esq, a dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, who chronicled the four voyages of the fictional surgeon and sea captain Lemue |
| YEAHS | Last word of Karen O's band (which is the plural of the first two words) |
| KEENE | Writer Carolyn, the pen name of more than 10 authors of the Nancy Drew series |
| ELLIS | The pen name of late author Emily Bronte, _ Bell (5) |
| OHENRY | The pen name of the short story writer William Sydney Porter (1,5) |
| SUSAN | _ Coolidge, the pen name of What Katy Did author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (5) |
| COOLIDGE | The pen name of What Katy Did author Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, Susan _ (8) |
