| BALLANTYNE | R M ?, author of adventure novels The Young Fur Traders and The Coral Island (10) |
| IDEALISING | Being unrealistic about claims made by trader and performer? |
| VERNE | Author of adventure novels including Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island (5) |
| FIJI | Archipelago in the South Pacific that includes the islands of Vatuvara and Taveuni, and the coral mass Rainbow Reef (4) |
| CAPEYORK | Northernmost extremity of Australia, projecting into the Torres Strait between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea. (4,4) |
| SYNGE | J M ?, author of 1907 stage play The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| PIRSIG | Robert M ?, author of 1974 autobiographical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| ORCZY | Baroness Emma -; author of adventure novels including The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Emperor's Candlesti |
| SABATINI | Rafael -; author of adventure novels including The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood (8) |
| CAIN | James M ?, author of the novels Serenade and Mildred Pierce (4) |
| FORSTER | E M ?, author of novels Howards End and A Room with a View (7) |
| ANTHONYHOPE | Author of adventure novels including The Prisoner Of Zenda (7,4) |
| HAGGARD | Sir Henry Rider -; author of adventure novels including King Solomon's Mines and She (7) |
| ALEXANDREDUMAS | French author who wrote the adventure novel The Count Of Monte Cristo (9,5) |
| ALCOTT | Louisa M ?, author of novels Little Women and Little Men |
| DELAFIELD | E M ?, author of 1930 novel Diary of a Provincial Lady (9) |
| RIDERHAGGARD | H. ___, English author of adventure novels including King Solomon's Mines (5,7) |
| OGDEN | Fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia |
| BARRIE | J M ?, author of 1902 novel The Little White Bird |
| DISCH | Thomas M ?, author of 1965 science fiction novel The Genocides |
