| IMAGERY | Pictures created by writer -- one's a peculiar grey (7) |
| TATS | Pictures created with needles, informally |
| LOBELIA | After highball, say, writer one's found in bed |
| AUTHORISING | Giving thumbs up to writer - one's popular and good |
| UTOPIAN | Describing a perfect place, as created by writer Thomas More (7) |
| TRIFFID | Fictional predatory plant created by writer John Wyndham (7) |
| MAIGRET | Jules ___, detective created by writer Georges Simenon (7) |
| RAFFLES | A. J. ___, gentleman thief created by author and poet E. W. Hornung (7) |
| MONTAGE | Picture created from a number of images (7) |
| MARLOWE | Philip --, private eye created by author Raymond Chandler (7) |
| BRIDGET | ----- Jones, diarist created by author Helen Fielding (7) |
| TABITHA | ___ Twitchit, fictional cat and shopkeeper created by author Beatrix Potter (7) |
| AIIMAGE | Picture created with a prompt |
| MEASURE | Gauge writer, one of a certain type (7) |
| SCHEMER | Half of school rejected studying sacred books by this writer, one inventing plots (7) |
| GAMBLER | Note writer, one will take risks (7) |
| ILLICIT | Sick writer, one in court, is banned (7) |
| GARDNER | Detective writer -- one who knows about plots, it's said? (7) |
| INKWELL | Source of material for writer one knew changing lines (7) |
| PENSION | Writer one charged to invest bit of spare cash for retirement (7) |
