| SYLVIAPLATH | US poet (1932-1963) whose only novel, The Bell Jar, was published in 1963 under the pen name Victoria Lucas (6,5) |
| THEBELLJAR | Only completed novel written by US poet Sylvia Plath, published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas (3,4,3) |
| PLATH | Sylvia -, poet and novelist whose book The Bell Jar was originally published under her pen name Victoria Lucas (5) |
| CORONA | Wreath, crown; victori ludorum danda |
| SYLVIA | American poet, 1932-63 (6,5) |
| PRETTYTHINGS | Band founded in Sidcup in 1963, whose S F Sorrow album was an early example of rock opera |
| YOGIBERRA | Yankees catcher (1946-1963) whose jersey #8 was retired: 2 wds. |
| BOX | Pandora's jar was how the myth started. Then it became this during the Renaissance. |
| AMPHORA | What two-handled, narrow- necked jar was used by the Greeks and Romans? (7) |
| MARGARET | And 27 US author whose only novel was 1936's Gone with the Wind (8,8) |
| ANNASEWELL | Author whose only novel is one of the first to be written from the perspective of a non-human character |
| CHEKHOV | Vaunted Russian writer whose only novel was The Shooting Party (7) |
| WILDE | Writer whose only novel was The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| MUIR | Frank ___, English humorist whose only novel was The Walpole Orange (4) |
| BRONTE | Emily, English author born in 1818 whose only novel was Wuthering Heights (6) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer whose only novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| STIG | ____ Of The Dump, children's novel by Clive King published in 1963 (4) |
| JOSIE | Comic book about a fictional rock band, first published in 1963, _ And The Pussycats (5) |
| HEIGHTS | Emily Bronte's only novel, first published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Wuthering ... |
| ZULEIKADOBSON | The only novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911 (7,6) |
