| GALBRAITH | Robert ___; pen name of the author who wrote The Cuckooa's Calling,The Silkworm and Career of Evil (9) |
| ROWLING | Author who wrote the Cormoran Strike trilogy comprising The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil under the pen name of Robert Galbraith (7) |
| STAR | 1968 musical film directed by Robert Wise based upon the life and career of Gertrude Lawrence |
| MULBERRY | Tree with an edible fruit whose leaves are the sole food source of the silkworm (8) |
| THAISILK | Fiber produced by silkworms and sourced from neighbour of Cambodia |
| FUNNYGIRL | 1964 Broadway musical about the life and career of 21-Across: 2 wds. |
| EDITH | Forename of the author who wrote The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers and also the Psammead that includes The Story of the Amulet (5) |
| TEY | Pen name of the author who wrote the Inspector Alan Grant novels including A Shilling for Candles and The Daughter of Time (3) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the author who wrote The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch (5) |
| CARROLL | Pen name of the author who wrote about characters including Alice, Dinah, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare (7) |
| TWAIN | Mark ___; pen name of the author of novels including The Prince and the Pauper and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (5) |
| CHILD | Pen name of the author who wrote the Jack Reacher series of novels including Killing Floor, Tripwire, One Shot, A Wanted Man and Night School (5) |
| PETERS | Pen name of the author who wrote the Cadfael Chronicles based on a fictional mystery-solving medieval Welsh Benedictine monk, apothecary and herbalist of Shrewsbury Abbey (6) |
| IRIS | Flower in a family that includes crocuses, freesias, gladioli; or, the first name of the author who wrote The Sea, The Sea (4) |
| COOLIDGE | Pen name of the author who wrote What Katy Did and its sequels (8) |
| NGAIO | First name of the author who wrote the Roderick Alleyn mysteries including Vintage Murder and Final Curtain (5) |
| WESLEY | Pen name of the author who wrote The Camomile Lawn (6) |
| MAYA | First name of the author who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (4) |
| LYTTON | Bulwer--; surname of the author who coined the phrases including "the great unwashed" and "the pen i |
| ISAK | Part of the pen name of the author who also once used the pseudonym Pierre Andrezel |
