| OWENMEREDITH | Pen-name of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, author of 1860 verse novel Lucile |
| 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) |
| BUTCHCASSIDY | Better-known name of Robert LeRoy Parker |
| REBEL | Confederate of 1860 |
| BURKE | Inland explorer of 1860 (5) |
| WILLS | Inland explorer of 1860 (5) |
| EUGENEONEGIN | Verse novel by Alexander Pushkin published in serial form between 1825 and 1832 (6,6) |
| SAND | George ___, pen-name of the author Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804-76) |
| POMPEII | Edwin Bulwer-Lytton historical novel, The Last Days Of ... |
| PELHAM | Prime minister from 1743-54; Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel; or, a type of bit (6) |
| GEORGESAND | Pen name of the Romantic-era novelist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin |
| PUSHKIN | Aleksandr ___, author of 1833 verse novel Eugene Onegin (7) |
| SWORD | 'The pen is mightier than the ___' (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, 1839) (5) |
| KNEBWORTH | --- House, mansion in Hertfordshire, the former home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (9) |
| RIENZI | Opera by Richard Wagner based on a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (6) |
| KNEBWORTHHOUSE | Tudor mansion in Hertfordshire, home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (9,5) |
| IONE | Heroine in The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| EUGENEARAM | English murderer celebrated in a ballad by Thomas Hood and a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| CLOUGH | Arthur Hugh -; author of the verse-novel Amours de Voyage who was an assistant to his wife's cousin Florence Nightingale (6) |
| ARAM | "Eugene ___" (1832 Bulwer-Lytton novel) |
