| Writer who popularized limericks | 32 |
| Writer who popularized the saying "To err is human, to forgive divine" | 80 |
| Writer who said "All literature is gossip" | 52 |
| Writer who said "All of life is a foreign country" | 60 |
| Writer who said "I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander" | 78 |
| Writer who said "Satire is what closes Saturday night" | 64 |
| Writer who said "What I cannot love, I overlook" | 58 |
| Writer who said, "I am not young enough to know everything" | 69 |
| Writer who was a source for Verdi's "Rigoletto" | 61 |
| Writer who was fond of a pond | 29 |
| Writer who was once a jockey | 28 |
| Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle | 79 |
| Writer who went to hell? | 24 |
| Writer who worked on Friday? | 28 |
| Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 90 |
| Writer who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" | 84 |
| Writer who's always seeing things? | 38 |
| Writer who's in the minority | 32 |
| Writer whose first book, 1846, sold only two copies | 51 |
| Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera | 73 |
| Writer whose pen name was Jeremy Lord | 37 |
| Writer whose Pulitzer for "A Death in the Family" was posthumous | 74 |
| Writer whose stories inspired "Guys and Dolls" | 56 |
| Writer whose words are twisted? | 31 |
| Writer whose work describes him to a T | 38 |
| Writer whose work was Shakespeare's primary source for "Julius Caesar" | 84 |
| Writer Wiesel | 13 |
| Writer Wilde | 12 |
| Writer Wilder | 13 |
| Writer Wilkinson of The New Yorker | 34 |
| Writer William | 14 |
| Writer William Carlos | 21 |
| Writer William Dean ___ | 23 |
| Writer William Gilmore ___: 1806–70 | 42 |
| Writer William, Stephen or Laura | 32 |
| Writer Williams | 15 |
| Writer Willy who popularized spaceflight | 40 |
| Writer Wister | 13 |
| Writer Wister or actor Wilson | 29 |
| Writer with a point? | 20 |
| Writer with a Pulitzer and an Oscar | 35 |
| Writer with a reservoir | 23 |
| Writer with a twist | 19 |
| Writer with a well | 18 |
| Writer with an award named after him | 36 |
| Writer with an award named for him | 34 |
| Writer with ink | 15 |
| Writer with morals | 18 |
| Writer with the most combined Tony and Oscar nominations | 56 |
| Writer with the most Oscar nominations | 38 |
| Writer with the pen name Saki | 29 |
| Writer Wolfe | 12 |
| Writer Wolfert | 14 |
| Writer Wolfert et al. | 21 |
| Writer Wolitzer | 15 |
| Writer Woolf, to friends | 24 |
| Writer Wylie | 12 |
| Writer Yutang | 13 |
| Writer Zane | 11 |
| Writer Zola | 11 |
| Writer Zola and others | 22 |
| Writer Zona | 11 |
| Writer Zona et al. | 18 |
| Writer Zora --- Hurston | 23 |
| Writer Zora Neale -- | 20 |
| Writer Zora __ Hurston | 22 |
| Writer Zora ___ Hurston | 23 |
| Writer Zweig or Heym | 20 |
| Writer __ Boothe Luce | 21 |
| Writer __ Neale Hurston | 23 |
| Writer __ Rogers St. Johns | 26 |
| Writer ___ Bashevis Singer | 26 |
| Writer ___ Blount Jr. | 21 |
| Writer ___ Boothe Luce | 22 |
| Writer ___ Ellis Easton | 23 |
| Writer ___ Hubbard | 18 |
| Writer ___ Ingalls Wilder | 25 |
| Writer ___ Kinnan Rawlings | 26 |
| Writer ___ Louise Huxtable | 26 |
| Writer ___ Maria Remarque | 25 |
| Writer ___ Neale Hurston | 24 |
| Writer ___ Pera | 15 |
| Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns | 27 |
| Writer ___ St. Johns | 20 |
| Writer ___ St. Vincent Millay | 29 |
| Writer ___ Stanley Gardner | 26 |
| Writer ___ Tan | 14 |
| Writer ___ Wheeler Wilcox | 25 |
| Writer ___ Wister | 17 |
| Writer ___ y Gasset | 19 |
| Writer ___ Yutang | 17 |
| Writer ___-Beuve | 16 |
| Writer _____ Louise Huxtable | 28 |
| Writer _____ Winslow | 20 |
| Writer's accessory of yore | 30 |
| Writer's aid | 16 |
| Writer's angle | 18 |
| Writer's best friend, one would think | 41 |
| Writer's best friend, you'd think | 41 |
| Writer's block à la Cole Porter? | 39 |