| DODGSON | Surname of British author who used the pen name Lewis Carroll (7) |
| MUNRO | H H ?, British writer who used the pen name Saki (5) |
| RABELAIS | Author who used the pseudonym "Alcofribas Nasier," an anagram of his full name |
| CLEMENS | Surname of the writer who used the pen name Mark Twain (7) |
| CHARLESLAMB | English writer who used the pen name Elia (7,4) |
| RONNIEBARKER | Comedian, actor and writer who used the pen name Gerald Wiley (6,6) |
| STEWART | Surname of British driver who won the Formula 1 world championship three times in the 1960s and 1970s (7) |
| DRSEUSS | Writer who used his actual middle name as a pen name |
| MILL | The ___ on the Floss: 1860 novel by Mary Ann Evans, who used the pen name George Eliot (4) |
| ANNE | Bronte sister who used the pen name Acton Bell |
| TSELIOT | Poet who used the name Old Possum |
| POE | Poet who used the pen name Quarles |
| JBMORTON | Humorist who used the pen name Beachcomber |
| DUMAS | Writer who used the word adsum (5) |
| SAKI | Pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), from a cupbearer in the Rubeiyat of Omar Khayyam (4) |
| HARDY | Dorset's celebrated literary figure who used the names Shaston or Palladour to describe the Saxon hilltop town Shaftesbury in the fictional Wessex of his novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbe |
| ALCOTT | U.S. novelist, abolitionist and feminist, born 1832, who sometimes used the pen name A.M. Barnard (6) |
| LAMB | Real name of the writer who used Elia as a pseudonym (4) |
| BRONTESISTERS | They used the pen names Acton, Currer, and Ellis Bell |
| ULTRA | The WWII codebreakers who used the Colossus to defeat the German Enigma machine called the material they gathered by this code name |