| KENKESEY | US author best known for the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (3,5) |
| ALEXANDER | Author of the 1962 novel One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, _ Solzhenitsyn (9) |
| REMARQUE | German-born US author best-known for the 1929 World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front (5,5,8) |
| ALBEE | US dramatist best known for the 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (6,5) |
| EDWARD | US dramatist best known for the 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (6,5) |
| GINSBERG | Allen _, late US author best known for the 1955 poem Howl (8) |
| CHRISMONTEZ | American singer and guitarist best known for the 1962 hit single Let's Dance (5,6) |
| MARIA | German-born US author best-known for the 1929 World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front (5,5,8) |
| ERICH | German-born US author best-known for the 1929 World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front (5,5,8) |
| RICE | US author best known for creating the character of Tarzan, Edgar _ Burroughs (4) |
| KEN | Author of 1962 novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (3,5) |
| KESEY | Author of 1962 novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (3,5) |
| ICEWATER | Write ace novel - one that will chill those on the beach (3,5) |
| JDSALINGER | US writer best known for The Catcher in the Rye (1,1,8) |
| PENKNIFE | One writing grand, fine novel - one with cutting edge (8) |
| ANALEMMA | A learner into an Austen novel -- one displays 'sunny' disposition (8) |
| THOREAU | Henry David ___, US writer best known for Walden, or Life in the Woods |
| SINCLAIRLEWIS | Babbitt was one of this US author's best-known books |
| RESIGNED | Philosophical novel one ends eg with hint of realism |
| COMPOSER | Morse cop novel one writes in bars (8) |