| MARKTWAIN | Pen name of the American novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| TWAIN | Pseudonym of US author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) (4,5) |
| MARK | Pseudonym of US author and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) (4,5) |
| ZELDA | Wife of the American novelist F Scott Fitzgerald (5) |
| POE | The American novelist, 'Edgar Allan ..... ' |
| ABROAD | Tom Sawyer -; novel by Samuel Langhorne Clemens under the pen name Mark Twain (6) |
| ALIAS | Mark Twain to Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| PSEUDONYM | Mark Twain, to Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| PENNAME | Mark Twain, for Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| CLEMENS | Samuel Langhorne ---, American writer known by the pen name Mark Twain (7) |
| STOCKTON | Frank R. --, American writer and humorist, author of the novel 'The House of Martha' (8) |
| NATEDOGG | Stage name of the American rapper, singer and actor born Nathaniel Dwayne Hale |
| BEEFHEART | Stage name of the American musician, singer-songwriter and artist Don Van Vliet (7,9) |
| CAPTAIN | Stage name of the American musician, singer-songwriter and artist Don Van Vliet (7,9) |
| CAPTAINBEEFHEART | Stage name of the American musician, singer-songwriter and artist Don Van Vliet |
| DONLEAVY | J P ___, Irish American novelist and playwright whose novels include The Ginger Man and A Fairy Tale of New York |
| ERICAJONG | American novelist and poet who wrote the 1973 novel Fear Of Flying (5,4) |
| KEROUAC | Jack ___, American novelist and poet considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation |
| HAWTHORNE | Nathaniel ---, American novelist and author of The Scarlet Letter (9) |
| JEROME | Author and humorist who wrote of the ostensible boating adventures of three fellows, and fox terrier Montmorency, in his comic novel Three Men in a Boat (6) |
