| LEMONYSNICKET | Pen name of US children's writer Daniel Handler, author of the 13-book A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) (6,7) |
| SPINE | Heartwood of a tree; a quill of a hedgehog; a bound edge of a book; a series of vertebrae; or, courage (5) |
| LEMONY | Pen name of children's author Daniel Handler; _ Snicket (6) |
| EUCLID | Greek mathematician of Alexandria who authored the 13-book work Elements (6) |
| MAURICE | ___ Sendak, US children's writer (7) |
| JANE | And 13 Book of the month with Milne's loveless gloomy character (4,4) |
| PAULINEEPISTLES | The 13 books from Romans to Philemon |
| OHENRY | Pen-name of US short-story writer William Sydney Porter, born in 1862 (1'5) |
| EVENTS | A Series Of --- ---, children's book series written by Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket (11,6) |
| UNFORTUNATE | A Series Of --- ---, children's book series written by Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket (11,6) |
| SPY | A secretive role of author Daniel Defoe around the time of the Acts of Union (3) |
| MAURICESENDAK | US children's author and illustrator best known for 1963's Where the Wild Things Are (7,6) |
| PAUL | Author of 13 books of the Bible |
| ELEMENTS | A mathematical and geometric treatise consisting of 13 books written by the Greek mathematician Euclid |
| DANIEL | US children's author sometimes known as Lemony Snicket, _ Handler (6) |
| OTTER | Any of the 13 semiaquatic musteline mammals making up the subfamily Lutrinae, especially the Eurasian Lutra lutra (5) |
| MALACODA | Leader of the thirteen demons who guard Bolgia Five of the eighth circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno |
| GEORGIA | Last of the Thirteen Colonies in the US that revolted against the British to be established (7) |
| BARNEY | US children's show of the 1990s and 2000s with a purple dinosuar, _ & Friends (6) |
| SPRY | Floral designer for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II who also co-invented coronation chicken and penned some 13 books including Come Into the Garden, Cook (4) |
