| LOUISAMAYALCOTT | U.S. novelist who wrote Little Women (6,3,6) |
| ALCOTT | Louisa May ---, American novelist who wrote Little Women (6) |
| LEVIN | Ira ___, U.S. novelist who wrote The Stepford Wives (5) |
| STEINBECK | John, U.S. novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath (9) |
| SEBOLD | Alice ___, U.S. novelist who wrote the novel The Lovely Bones published in 2002 (6) |
| TOMCLANCY | U.S. novelist who created Jack Ryan (3,6) |
| UPDIKE | John, U.S. novelist who created the character Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom (6) |
| LUDLUM | Robert, U.S. novelist who created the character Jason Bourne (6) |
| ERNESTHEMINGWAY | Angry new themes I suspect for U.S. novelist (6,9) |
| FORESTER | C. S. -; novelist who wrote the Horatio Hornblower saga (8) |
| LEWIS | C. S. -; novelist who wrote The Space Trilogy comprising Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength (5) |
| ORB | Ambient group who wrote "Little Fluffy Clouds," with "the" |
| BERGER | Thomas who wrote "Little Big Man" |
| MAO | Zedong who wrote Little Red Book |
| ARNDT | Michael who wrote "Little Miss Sunshine" |
| LAURA | Ingalls Wilder who wrote Little House on the Prairie |
| WRATH | Anger in U.S. novelist, it's said (5) |
| FROTHY | Fine U.S. novelist followed by Yankee that's lightweight (6) |
| BELLOW | U.S. novelist's loud cry (6) |
| KEROUAC | Jack, U.S. novelist and poet who was a leading figure in the Beat Generation (7) |
