| TOLKIEN | The Hobbit author, J.R.R. _ (7) |
| REUEL | Second 'R.' of The Hobbit writer J.R.R. Tolkien's name |
| ELVISH | A group of languages of Middle-earth created by fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien (6) |
| HARTLEY | J R ___, Fly Fishing author, in adverts (7) |
| MARTIN | George R R_, author of the fantasy novel series A Song Of Ice And Fire (6) |
| TUFNELL | P C R ___, England Test cricketer who took 7-66 against Australia at the Oval in 1997 (7) |
| DECORUM | Appropriate social behaviour, as in the 'great white rhododendron' (R. ___) (7) |
| JRR | The Hobbit author Mr. Tolkien |
| JRRS | Mr. Tolkien, et al. (The Hobbit author) |
| JRRTOLKIEN | "The Hobbit" author |
| JARDINE | D R ___, England Test cricketer who hit 127 against West Indies at Manchester in 1933 (7) |
| CADDICK | A R ___, England Test cricketer who took 6-65 against West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1994 (7) |
| TASSELS | S__r__nd__ on __om__ cornsta__k__ |
| SALINGER | The Catcher in the Rye author, J.D. ___ |
| FLINTABBATEY | Did you Know? The historic Prairie mining city of Flin Flori takes its name from the prospector Josiah Flonatin in British writer J.E. Preston Muddock's 1905 novel The Sunless City |
| PETERPAN | A 'Betwixt-and-Between' introduced by Scottish writer J. M. Barrie in the 1902 novel The Little White Bird (5,3) |
| KATHLEEN | Author J.K. Rowling's chosen middle name (8) |
| VANCE | Hillbilly Elegy author J. D. |
| FRANNY | ____ and Zooey, book by U.S. author J.D. Salinger published in 1961 (6) |
| STRIKE | Cormoran, detective created by writer J.K. Rowling under the alias Robert Galbraith (6) |
