| WESLEY | Pen name of the author who wrote The Camomile Lawn (6) |
| KENDAL | Voice of Hunca Munca in the series The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends who starred in The Good Life, The Camomile Lawn and Rosemary & Thyme (6) |
| PETERS | Pen name of the author who wrote the Cadfael Chronicles based on a fictional mystery-solving medieval Welsh Benedictine monk, apothecary and herbalist of Shrewsbury Abbey (6) |
| ISABEL | Forename of the author who penned The Shooting Party and The Summer of the Royal Visit (6) |
| BYPATH | The author who wrote it for father on most of the little-used track (6) |
| LYTTON | Bulwer ___; surname of the author who coined the phrases including "the great unwashed" and "the pen |
| EDITH | Forename of the author who wrote The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers and also the Psammead that includes The Story of the Amulet (5) |
| OSBERT | First name of the writer who was a sibling of Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell |
| SAYERS | Surname of the writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey (6) |
| GALBRAITH | Pen name of the author who wrote The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and, most recently, Career of Ev |
| TEY | Pen name of the author who wrote the Inspector Alan Grant novels including A Shilling for Candles and The Daughter of Time (3) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the author who wrote The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch (5) |
| CHILD | Pen name of the author who wrote the Jack Reacher series of novels including Killing Floor, Tripwire, One Shot, A Wanted Man and Night School (5) |
| IRIS | Flower in a family that includes crocuses, freesias, gladioli; or, the first name of the author who wrote The Sea, The Sea (4) |
| CARROLL | Pen name of the author who wrote about characters including Alice, Dinah, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare (7) |
| COOLIDGE | Pen name of the author who wrote What Katy Did and its sequels (8) |
| MAYA | First name of the author who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (4) |
| TWAIN | Mark -; pen name of the author who wrote about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (5) |
| POIROT | "Egocentric little creep" of a detective, according to the author who created him |
| MARYWESLEY | Writer of the 1984 novel The Camomile Lawn (4,6) |
