| VANITYPRESS | Publisher paid by authors |
| THOR | Mythical figure penned by authors |
| PENNAME | Pseudonym used by authors |
| FANFICTION | Stories unauthorized by authors |
| IAN | Name shared by authors Fleming and McEwan |
| PHILIP | Forename shared by authors Dick, Pullman and Roth |
| EDITH | Forename shared by authors Nesbit and Wharton (5) |
| SHED | Type of garden structure used by authors including Benjamin Britten, Rudyard Kipling, Agatha Christi |
| GIBBONS | Novelist best-known for Cold Comfort Farm, a parody of works by authors such as Mary Webb and D. H. Lawrence (7) |
| TITANIUM | Jumbo taken by author's boarded by posh element (8) |
| TUDOR | English royal house and period of history written about in books by authors including David Starkey, Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory (5) |
| ROAD | Type of thoroughfare in titles of books by authors including Iain Banks, Maeve Binchy, Erskine Caldwell and George Orwell (4) |
| ENID | First name shared by authors Blyton and Bagnold (4) |
| ANITA | First name shared by authors Shreve and Desai (5) |
| SUSAN | First name shared by authors Hill and Howatch (5) |
| TIME | Middle of article is replaced by author's sentence (4) |
| IDEALISM | Sort of ladies captivated by author's belief in perfection |
| HAPPENED | Came about a page by author being restricted by hard editor (8) |
| ALICEBAND | Hair accessory inspired by the protagonist in stories by author Lewis Carroll (5,4) |
| RAMBO | John ---, character created by author David Morrell, played in a film franchise by Sylvester Stallone (5) |
