| COOKSON | Surname of the prolific historical, romantic fiction author who also wrote as Catherine Marchant (7) |
| OLIVIER | Surname of the prolific actor, Laurence -, and title of prestigious theatre awards (7) |
| BODICERIPPER | Historical romantic fiction (6,6) |
| STEPHEN | ___ 72 Across, author who also wrote as Richard Bachman (7) |
| DAVIS | Marchant _, star of film The Day Shall Come (5) |
| ELLERYQUEEN | Pseudonym of US crime writers Frederic Dannay (1905-82) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-71), who also wrote as Barnaby Ross (6,5) |
| BOWER | Virgin's - - - - -, name commonly given to the prolific, whiteflowered Clematis virginiana (5) |
| KNIGHTS | The -; play by Aristophanes, the dramatist who also wrote The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds and The Frogs (7) |
| HUBBARD | US science fiction writer who founded the Church of Scientology (1,3,7) |
| STEWART | Author of novels including Madam, Will You Talk?, Airs Above the Ground and Rose Cottage who also wrote the Merlin trilogy (7) |
| SERPENT | Drama starring Samantha Morton as Catherine de' Medici, The _ Queen (7) |
| SHERRYL | -- Woods, American author who also uses the name Alexandra Kirk (6) |
| BAGNOLD | Author best known for her novel National Velvet who also wrote A Diary Without Dates and plays including The Chalk Garden and A Matter of Gravity (7) |
| GRAFTON | Late author whose daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends in Y" |
| THECELL | 2000 Tarsem Singh film starring Jennifer Lopez as Catherine Deane (3,4) |
| SHARPE | Blott on the Landscape author who also wrote of the trials of public schoolboy Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown in Vintage Stuff (6) |
| CHAUCER | 14th century poet who also wrote "A Treatise on the Astrolabe" |
| AGATHA | First name of the English author who also wrote under the name Mary Westmacott (6) |
| HHMUNRO | Short-story writer who wrote as Saki (1,1,5) |
| SUBPLOT | What Jules Verne wrote as secondary storyline? (7) |
