| STEVENSON | Scottish writer who created 69-Down |
| BARRIE | J.M., Scottish writer who created the character Tinker Bell (6) |
| IANRANKIN | Scottish author who created Inspector Rebus (3,6) |
| RANKIN | Scottish author who created the Rebus detective novels, Ian ___ (6) |
| IAN | Scottish author who created Rebus, _ Rankin (3) |
| RONAMUNRO | Scottish writer who has written plays for theatre, radio, and television (4,5) |
| BUCHAN | John, Scottish writer who wrote the adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| IRVINE | _ Welsh, Scottish author who wrote 1993's Trainspotting (6) |
| IRVINEWELSH | Scottish author who wrote Trainspotting: 2 wds. |
| STUART | Douglas, Scottish author who won the 2020 Booker Prize for his novel Shuggie Bain (6) |
| NAOMI | And 13ac Scottish author who was also a tribal mother in Botswana (5,9) |
| MURIELSPARK | Scottish author who wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: 2 wds. |
| DOYLE | Scottish author who wrote The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan ... |
| IAIN | _ Banks. Scottish author who wrote psychological horror novel The Wasp Facto (4) |
| REBUS | John, detective created by Scottish writer Ian Rankin (5) |
| HYDE | Mr ____ , evil alter ego of Dr Jekyll, fictional character created by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (4) |
| PETERPAN | Character created by the Scottish writer J. M. Barrie (5,3) |
| CARLYLE | Scottish writer clearly upset (7) |
| HOGG | Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835). |
| CRONIN | Read about first of romances by popular Scottish writer (6) |
