| ILF | What was the pseudonym of the Russian writer who, with Petrov, wrote the 1928 popular satirical nove |
| BLUNDEN | English poet who wrote the 1928 memoir Undertones of War (7) |
| ONION | Popular satirical news source, with "The" |
| PASTERNAK | What was the surname of Boris, the Russian author of Doctor Zhivago ? (9) |
| DOSTOEVSKY | Surname of the Russian author of 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Idiot' (10) |
| LENIN | Adopted pseudonym of the Russian revolutionary and politician Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (1870-1924) |
| AFRIT | The pseudonym of the pioneering crossword setter Prebendary A. F. Ritchie (5) |
| XIMENES | The pseudonym of the crossword setter D S Macnutt (7) |
| GALTON | Surname of the writer who, with 6 down, created 9 down's radio and TV world (6) |
| SIMPSON | Surname of the writer who, with 3 down, created 9 down's radio and TV world (7) |
| BUNIN | Russian writer who won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Literature, Ivan ___ (b.1870 - d.1953) |
| ALLEN | Author who, with his wife Janet, wrote children's books include The Jolly Postman, _ Ahlberg (5) |
| GOGOGOGOL | Russian writer who liked dance clubs? |
| KENKESEY | Author who, with his friends, famously formed the Merry Pranksters |
| ROSALIE | 1937 MGM film adaptation of the 1928 stage musical of the same name, but with most of the Broadway score replaced with new songs by Cole Porter |
| MARKTWAIN | Pseudonym of the US author of the 1881 historical novel The Prince and the Pauper (4,5) |
| NEILMAGANTNER | Which US-born Australian writer used the pseudonym of Neilma Sidney and wrote Sunday Evening: storie |
| VOLTAIRE | What is the pseudonym of 18th Century writer Francois-Marie Arouet? (8) |
| FAIRYSKISS | The ?, English title of the 1928 ballet by Igor Stravinsky based on Hans Christian Andersen tale The Ice-Maiden (6,4) |
| SPYSCANDAL | Catches sight of candle, I hear, in affair of Profumo or Petrov (3,7) |
