| BALLANTYNE | R M ___, Scottish author noted for adventure stories such as The Coral Island |
| IAINBANKS | Scottish author noted for his novels The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road (4,5) |
| SMILES | Samuel, Scottish author noted for his 1859 work Self-Help (6) |
| HGWELLS | Victorian author best known for science fiction stories such as The War of the Worlds (1,1,5) |
| EPICS | Grand stories such as "The Mahabharata" and "The Iliad" |
| LEGENDS | Traditional stories such as the originals telling of saints' lives (7) |
| GRAHAME | Kenneth ___, Scottish author best known for the children's book The Wind in the Willows |
| PETERKIN | --- Gay, character in R.M. Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (8) |
| TALES | Stories such as those of Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Kitten and Peter Rabbit |
| STRAND | Illustrated magazine founded in 1891 specialising in short stories such as those featuring Sherlock Holmes (6) |
| RALPHROVER | In Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (1857), what is the name of one of the three boys shipwrecked |
| GAY | Peterkin ?, survivor, with Ralph Rover and Jack Martin, of a shipwreck in R M Ballantyne novel The Coral Island (3) |
| ATOLL | Leading character's sound as a bell in The Coral Island |
| PETERKINGAY | Youngest of the three castaways in RM Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (8,3) |
| GALT | John ___, Scottish author of novels The Ayrshire Legatees and Annals of the Parish (4) |
| RANSOME | Author of a series of adventure stories based on four "Swallows" and their sailing rivals, the "Amazons" (7) |
| MOTU | North Island river which flows through the Raukumara Ranges, popular for adventure tourism (4) |
| BUCHAN | John ___, Scottish author of novels including The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| HOGG | James ___, Scottish author of 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (4) |
| SMOLLETT | Tobias ___ Scottish author of novels including The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) |
