| GEORGEMACDONALD | Scottish Victorian author of The Princess and the Goblin (6,9) |
| ANTHONYTROLLOPE | Victorian author of the Palliser novels (7,8) |
| THEPRINCESS | George MacDonald's fantasy novel '- and the Goblin' (3,8) |
| ANDERSEN | Author of "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Ugly Duckling" |
| BLACKMORE | Victorian author of the rural romance Lorna Doone |
| SMILES | Samuel ____, Scottish Victorian author noted for his book Self-Help that promoted thrift (6) |
| MEGCABOT | U.S. author of The Princess Diaries (3,5) |
| TENNYSON | Victorian writer of the elegiac poem In Memoriam |
| ONCE | ___ Upon a Mattress (musical adaptation of "The Princess and the Pea") |
| ODIE | Voodoo priestess Mama ___ of The Princess and the Frog |
| KINGSLEY | Victorian author of Westward Ho! and The Water Babies |
| GASKELL | Victorian author of Cranford and North and South |
| MEREDITH | Victorian author of Diana of the Crossways (8) |
| BEETON | Victorian author of a book on household management and cookery featuring some 900 recipes including those for pastries, pickles, pies, poultry and puddings (6) |
| OLIPHANT | Margaret, Victorian writer of novels Squire Arden and Miss Marjoribanks (8) |
| MARGARET | Forename of the princess and Countess of Snowdon who was Queen Elizabeth II's only sibling (8) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the Victorian author who wrote The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda (5) |
| ORCS | What are the goblins called in The Lord of the Rings? (4) |
| BORROW | What one may do at the library with the works of a Victorian author? |
| YONGE | Victorian author and Tractan'an who wrote The Heir of Redclyffe (5) |
