| ELLISON | Ralph ___, US novelist whose best-known work is 1952's Invisible Man (7) |
| RALPH | US author who wrote 1952's Invisible Man, _ Ellison (5) |
| BARBOUR | John ___, 14th-century Scottish poet whose best known work is The Brus (7) |
| RAYMOND | Detective-story writer whose best-known work is The Big Sleep (7,8) |
| LEONARD | American composer whose best-known work is the musical West Side Story, _ Bernstein (7) |
| BALLARD | JG _, novelist whose best-known works are Crash (1973) |
| DUCHAMP | Marcel ___, French-born US painter and sculptor whose best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 |
| ANGELOU | Maya ___, US novelist whose works include the autobiographical I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) |
| NABOKOV | Vladimir _, Russianamerican author whose best-known work was his 1955 novel Lolita (7) |
| RUSSELL | Willy -; playwright whose best-known works include Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine and Blood Brothers (7) |
| DREISER | Theodore ___, US novelist; Sister Carrie (1900), An American Tragedy (1925) etc. (7) |
| COCTEAU | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| KEROUAC | Jack ___ : US novelist and Beat Generation pioneer (7) |
| CHANDLER | Detective-story writer whose best-known work is The Big Sleep (7,8) |
| DEMILLE | Director of 1956's The Ten Commandments and 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth, Cecil B ------- (7) |
| FRESCOBALDI | Girolamo, Italian organist and composer whose best known work is Fiori musicali (11) |
| THOMASNASHE | Elizabethan author whose best-known work is "The Unfortunate Traveller" |
| EUCLID | Early Greek mathematician whose best known work is Elements (6) |
| RAVEL | Maurice --, French composer whose best known work is 'Bolero' (5) |
| FRANCK | Composer whose best-known work is probably Panis Angelicus |
