| CROMPTON | Richmal ?, author of stories featuring William Brown and Violet Elizabeth Bott |
| ARTHUR | Forename of the author of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, including A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles (6) |
| MOCA | L.A. museum that houses Rothko's "Red and Brown" and "Purple Brown" |
| YOUTHFUL | As Violet Elizabeth Bott would say, it's of benefit to be young (8) |
| LISPED | Spoke like Violet Elizabeth Bott, e.g. (6) |
| CHESTERTON | Author of a series of stories featuring his character Father Brown including The Blue Cross, The Purple Wig, The Green Man and The Red Moon of Meru (10) |
| RANKIN | Scottish author who is the creator a series of stories featuring Inspector John Rebus (6) |
| BOTT | Violet Elizabeth ?, character in the Just William stories by Richmal Crompton |
| WODEHOUSE | Author of a canon of comic novels and stories featuring bachelor Bertram "Bertie" Wilberforce Wooster and his omniscient gentleman's gentleman, Reginald Jeeves (9) |
| RUNYON | Damon _, US author of stories including The Idyli Of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure (6) |
| DRSEUSS | Pen name of the author of stories about a cat in a hat, green eggs and ham and Sam-I-Am (2,5) |
| REGINALDHILL | Author of detective stories featuring Superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe |
| TURGENEV | Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (8) |
| GORKY | Maxim ....., Soviet realist writer of stories, novels and plays (5) |
| RKNARAYAN | Writer of stories set in the fictional town of Malgudi in southern India |
| SMOKE | Wayne Wang film written by Paul Auster featuring William Hurt as Paul Benjamin (5) |
| MUTINY | Novel featuring William Bligh; _ on the Bounty (6) |
| JUMBLE | A hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, muddle or other confused mixture; bric-a-brac, cast-offs and oddments collected for a rummage sale; or, William Brown's trusty dog (6) |
| ALGORITHM | Maths program a doctrine of ex-VP, says Ms Bott? (9) |
| FANTASIST | A daydreamer, rainbow-chaser or wool-gatherer; or, a word for an author of stories based on imaginary worlds, magic, mythical beings etc (9) |
