| GALTON | Surname of the writer who, with 6 down, created 9 down's radio and TV world (6) |
| SIMPSON | Surname of the writer who, with 3 down, created 9 down's radio and TV world (7) |
| ILF | What was the pseudonym of the Russian writer who, with Petrov, wrote the 1928 popular satirical nove |
| LEICESTER | 1st Earl of ---, title of 20 Down, created for him in 1564 (9) |
| ALLEN | Author who, with his wife Janet, wrote children's books include The Jolly Postman, _ Ahlberg (5) |
| KENKESEY | Author who, with his friends, famously formed the Merry Pranksters |
| SAYERS | Surname of the writer who created Lord Peter Wimsey (6) |
| ISABEL | Forename of the author who penned The Shooting Party and The Summer of the Royal Visit (6) |
| OSBERT | First name of the writer who was a sibling of Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell |
| LYTTON | Bulwer--; surname of the author who coined the phrases including "the great unwashed" and "the pen i |
| OBRIEN | Surname of the writer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (6) |
| PETERS | Pen name of the author who wrote the Cadfael Chronicles based on a fictional mystery-solving medieval Welsh Benedictine monk, apothecary and herbalist of Shrewsbury Abbey (6) |
| BARRIE | Surname of the writer famous for Peter Pan, etc. (6) |
| WESLEY | Pen name of the author who wrote The Camomile Lawn (6) |
| BYPATH | The author who wrote it for father on most of the little-used track (6) |
| 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) |
| JEEVES | Valet character who features in many short stories and novels written by the author who was known as |
| POIROT | "Egocentric little creep" of a detective, according to the author who created him |
| VERNE | Surname of the writer who created Phineas Fogg (5) |
| CHANDLER | Surname of the writer who created Philip Marlowe (8) |
