| MANSFIELD | Pen name of the author of short stories including How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped, The Garden Party, A Cup of Tea and The Doll's House (9) |
| EDEN | Her belly button was famously censored |
| NACRE | Pearl button coating |
| NACRES | Materials for pearl buttons |
| JAMES | Author of the Adam Dalgliesh novels and unrelated short stories including The Mistletoe Murder and The Twelve Clues of Christmas (5) |
| OSCAR | Forename of a dramatist, novelist, poet and wit who also wrote short stories including The Fisherman and His Soul, The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and The Star-Child (5) |
| HOLMES | Surname of a fictional detective who features in four novels and 56 short stories including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| OHENRY | Pen name of William Sidney Porter, author of short story collections Roads of Destiny and The Four Million (1,5) |
| ANAISNIN | Delta of Venus is the bestknown work by which novelist and writer of short stories and erotica? (5,3) |
| HAVEL | Dramatist who wrote the 1963 play The Garden Party and served as the first President of the Czech Republic (5) |
| LAWSON | Nigella -; author of a number of cookery books including How to Eat, How to Be A Domestic Goddess and Feast (6) |
| HAIG | Author of The Comfort Book and novels including How to Stop Time and The Midnight Library (4) |
| WATSON | Dr -; fictional character in stories including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| CORNWELL | Author whose Saxon Stories including The Last Kingdom recount the life of Alfred the Great as told by Uhtred of Bebbanburg (8) |
| MEADE | Honey-wine-like name of an author of children's stories including A World of Girls and Wild Kitty (5) |
| JUSTSO | - - Stories; collection of animal tales by Rudyard Kipling including How the Leopard Got His Spots (4,2) |
| BALLANTYNE | Author of adventure stories including The Coral Island and its sequel The Gorilla Hunters (10) |
| RUNYON | Damon _, US author of stories including The Idyli Of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure (6) |
| WASHINGTON | --- Irving, American writer best known for short stories including Rip Van Winkle (10) |
| RUSSIAN | Chekhov, for instance, starts to rewrite unpublished short stories including Ariadne and Neighbours |
