| LEACOCK | Stephen -, Canadian humorist whose works include the story collection Literary Lapses |
| 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) |
| STEPHEN | Canadian teacher, political scientist and humorist whose comic works include Literary Lapses and Frenzied Fiction (7,7) |
| LEIGHHUNT | English critic, essayist, poet and writer whose poems include The Story of Rimini and The Descent of Liberty |
| ROWE | Actor whose TV credits include The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Clive _ (4) |
| GENESIS | Book in the Old Testament that includes the story of Noah and the flood (7) |
| WILSON | Sir Angus -; author of the story collection The Wrong Set and novels including The Old Men at the Zoo and No Laughing Matter (6) |
| EXHIBITION | 'The ------ '. story collection by JG Ballard which features the tale The Summer Cannibals (8,10) |
| ATROCITY | 'The ------ '. story collection by JG Ballard which features the tale The Summer Cannibals (8,10) |
| FULLER | Scholar whose Worthies of England includes the story of Walter Raleigh's alleged laying of a cloak before the feet of Elizabeth I (6) |
| IROBOT | Asimov collection that includes the story "Robbie" |
| ISAACASIMOV | Russian-born US writer whose science-fiction works included the story collection I, Robot (5,6) |
| PRITCHETT | Author born above a toyshop who wrote the story collection You Make Your Own Life and the memoirs A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil (9) |
| IRVING | US author of the story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (10,6) |
| CHARTERIS | Leslie ___, author of the story collections Enter the Saint and The Brighter Buccaneer (9) |
| AMES | Stephen -, Canadian golfer who won the 2004 Western Open (4) |
| SUNSHINE | 1912 book by Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock, ___ Sketches of a Little Town |
| RUTH | Bible book that includes the story of Naomi |
| DAMON | Author of the story collection Guys and Dolls (,6) |
| BUSHNELL | Candace, author of the story collection 4 Blondes (8) |
