| BALLANTYNE | Victorian adventure novelist who wrote about Barbary pirates, coral islands, Cornish mines, gorilla hunters and many other things (10) |
| DUMAS | French dramatist and adventure novelist who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo and the d'Artagnan Romances including The Three Musketeers (5) |
| SHINE | Do exceptionally well in cutting a Victorian adventure novel (5) |
| RIDER | Middle name in Victorian adventure fiction |
| HAGGARD | Careworn writer of Victorian adventure novels (7) |
| FAULKNER | William ..., US novelist who wrote about people in the southern states (8) |
| ORCZY | Novelist who wrote about an elusive, quick-thinking swordsman and escapeartist in The Scarlet Pimpernel (5) |
| AUSTEN | Jane -; novelist who wrote about the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility (6) |
| NESBIT | Novelist who wrote about characters including Bobbie, Peter, Phyllis and Perks in The Railway Children (6) |
| NICKHORNBY | Novelist who wrote "About a Boy" and "High Fidelity" |
| STEINBECK | John -; novelist who wrote about characters George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men (9) |
| BUCK | Pearl ___, 1938 Nobel Prize-winning novelist who wrote about China (4) |
| KAFKA | Czech novelist who wrote about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924) (5) |
| DEEP | R M Ballantyne novel subtitled A Tale of the Cornish Mines (4,4) |
| DEEPDOWN | R M Ballantyne novel subtitled A Tale of the Cornish Mines |
| GRAHAME | Novelist who wrote about the adventures of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Mr Toad in the classic family favourite The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| WILLIAMSON | English novelist who wrote about the countryside in his A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series, Tarka the Otter, Life in a Devon Village and many more (10) |
| HARDY | Dorset novelist who wrote about his fictional land Wessex in Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and other books (5) |
| TWAIN | Pen name of the novelist who wrote about the adventures of characters Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (5) |
| COOPER | Jilly -; novelist who wrote about characters including Rupert Campbell-Black, Billy Lloyd-Foxe and Jake Lovell in Riders (6) |
