| MCML | When "Dianetics" was first published |
| DOH | Cartoon catchphrase included in the New Oxford Dictionary of English when it was first published in 1998 |
| BELL | Surname adopted by the Bronte sisters when their work was first published (4) |
| SAMUELJOHNSON | British lexicographer whose Dictionary was first published in 1755 |
| WATTPAD | Site where The Kissing Booth was first published |
| DICKENS | His novel Oliver Twist was first published in monthly instalments in the magazine, Bentley's Miscell |
| BEETON | Isabella ___, cook whose Book of Household Management was first published in 1861 (6) |
| PROBLEM | Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1893 (3,5,7) |
| THEFINAL | Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1893 (3,5,7) |
| FRESCOBALDI | Girolamo ___, Italian organist and composer whose best known work, the collection Fiori musicali, was first published in 1635 (11) |
| KILMARNOCK | East Ayrshire town where Robert Burns's collection Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was first published (10) |
| HUGH | Playboy magazine was first published in December 1953 by ... Hefner |
| TOTAL | ---Rugby, Jim Greenwood's classic coaching book that was first published in 1968 (5) |
| ALLTHEYEARROUND | Periodical literary magazine, founded and owned by Charles Dickens, in which his A Tale of Two Cities was first published |
| STAGE | The -, theatre industry periodical that was first published in 1880 (5) |
| BEARDSLEY | Inspired by Japanese woodcuts, his drawing The Toilet of Salome was first published in the 1894 edition of Oscar Wilde's Salome. |
| ANNEFRANK | Writer whose account was first published as "Het Achterhuis" ("The Secret Annex") |
| CARRIE | ****** Fisher, US actress whose novel 'Postcards from the Edge' was first published in 1987 (6) |
| SUNDAYTELEGRAPH | Weekend edition of a leading British newspaper which was first published on 4th February 1961 (6,9) |
| MAPLELEAFRAG | Scott Joplin piano composition whose sheet music was first published in 1899 |
