| MORTSAHL | Quebec-born comedian who penned the autobiography Heartland (4,4) |
| SAHL | Mort ?, Canada-born comedian who penned the autobiography Heartland (4) |
| TIOMKIN | Dmitri, Russian-born composer and pianist who penned the autobiography Please Don't Hate Me (7) |
| CHRISTIE | Best-selling novelist of all time who penned the Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple novels as well as the world's longest-running play - The Mousetrap (8) |
| THOMPSON | Author who penned the verse collection Bog Myrtle and Peat and the trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford (8) |
| TROLLOPE | Post Office-clerk-turned-author who penned the Palliser or Parliamentary novels, including Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister (8) |
| MELVILLE | Novelist who penned the epic tale based on Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the giant white whale called Moby-Dick (8) |
| RATTIGAN | British playwright who penned The Browning Version |
| ALAMO | "The Man from the ___" (1953 Western starring Quebec-born actor Glenn Ford) |
| RUSSELLHOWARD | Bath-born comedian who hosts the TV show Good News (7,6) |
| BELLOW | 21 Saul ___ (1915 - 2005), Quebec-born novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 (6) |
| TRINDER | Tommy ___, London-born comedian who played the title role in 1944 film Champagne Charlie (7) |
| ARTHURSMITH | London-born comedian who co-wrote the 1991 stage play An Evening with Gary Lineker |
| HENRY | Dudley-born comedian who recently played Othello on stage, Lenny _ (5) |
| GEORGESVANIER | Canada's first Quebec born Gov. Gen. |
| GLENNFORD | Quebec-born actor whose films include 1946's Gilda (5,4) |
| ISABEL | Forename of the author who penned The Shooting Party and The Summer of the Royal Visit (6) |
| COLERIDGE | Lake Poet who penned The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and refers to the phenomenon known as the Brocken spectre in his 1828 piece Constancy to an Ideal Object (9) |
| ECO | Italian medievalist, semiotician and writer who penned the discourse on aesthetics On Beauty and several novels including Foucault's Pendulum and the international bestseller titled The Name of the Ro |
| KAY | Peter -, Bolton-born comedian who co-wrote and starred in C4 television comedy series Phoenix Nights |
