| TIMDEE | UK nature writer, author of The Running Sky (3, 3) |
| WILDLIFETRUST | Any of 46 UK nature reserve conservation bodies (8,5) |
| GATISS | Mark ___, actor-writer; author of 2004 novel The Vesuvius Club (6) |
| THOMAS | English writer, author of Le Morte D'arthur (3,6,6) |
| MALORY | English writer, author of Le Morte D'arthur (3,6,6) |
| RUNYON | A. Damon --, US short-story writer, author of 'Guys and Dolls' (6) |
| TALBOT | The Pencil of Nature, author (6) |
| MURPHY | Travel writer, author of Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle (1965) (6,6) |
| DERVLA | Travel writer, author of Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle (1965) (6,6) |
| ROLAND | "The Death of the Author" author Barthes |
| JOHNWYNDHAM | 20th Century British science-fiction writer, author of The Day Of The Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos (4,7) |
| EHRENBURG | Ilya, Soviet writer, author of the novel The Thaw (9) |
| SALINGER | JD _, American writer, author of The Catcher In The Rye (1951) |
| PLINY | ___ the Elder, Roman writer; author of the encyclopaedic Natural History (5) |
| TALESE | "Origins of a Nonfiction Writer" author |
| AMBROSEBIERCE | US journalist and short story writer, author of The Devil's Dictionary |
| HAMMETT | Dashiell ___ (1894-1961), crime writer, author of The Maltese Falcon (1930) (7) |
| EDITHNESBIT | English writer, author of The Railway Children (5,6) |
| SCRIBE | Writer, author |
| HESTERLYNCHTHRALE | English writer, author of Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (1786) |
