| Fire off a letter | 17 |
| Exhortation from home | 21 |
| Emulate Styron | 14 |
| Emulate Rice or Oates | 21 |
| Emulate Oates or Rice | 21 |
| Emulate Bellow | 14 |
| Do some Picayune work | 21 |
| Do a creative job | 17 |
| Create copy | 11 |
| Correspond with | 15 |
| Compose, as a letter | 20 |
| Compose a letter | 16 |
| Communicate by letter | 21 |
| Be an author | 12 |
| Answer a letter | 15 |
| "Keep in touch" | 25 |
| "I ___ the Songs" | 27 |
| "Who casts to ___ living line . . . ": Jonson | 55 |
| Pen some fiction | 16 |
| Description of golf (Part 4) | 28 |
| Part 2 of the grook | 19 |
| Report boastfully | 17 |
| Comment especially on | 21 |
| Unlisted candidate | 18 |
| Third-party vote, at times | 26 |
| Rare electee | 12 |
| Kind of candidate who's rarely successful | 45 |
| Movement for one not on the ballot | 34 |
| Candidates not on ballots | 25 |
| Addition at the polls | 21 |
| "None of the above," essentially | 42 |
| Do legislative work | 19 |
| Do humor in the style of Alfred E. Neuman? | 42 |
| AOL menu selection | 18 |
| Pen pal's plea | 18 |
| Correspondence request | 22 |
| ''Please send a letter'' | 40 |
| What composers do on Labor Day? | 31 |
| Tax deduction | 13 |
| Remove from the books, as an unpaid debt | 40 |
| Deem unsalvageable | 18 |
| Cancellation of a debt | 22 |
| Deductions | 10 |
| Components of some losses | 25 |
| Prepare an obituary? | 20 |
| Pen vernal pieces? | 18 |
| Do a treatise about | 19 |
| Word processor user | 19 |
| Grub Street denizen | 19 |
| Steinbeck, e.g. | 15 |
| Sentence determiner | 19 |
| One hoping to be shelved? | 25 |
| Many a freelancer | 17 |
| Journalist, e.g. | 16 |
| John Grisham, e.g. | 18 |
| Hale or Hardy | 13 |
| Gide, e.g. | 10 |
| Edward Morgan Forster, e.g. | 27 |
| Dodge or Nash | 13 |
| Crane, Paine or Twain | 21 |
| Christie or le Carré | 23 |
| Brown, Grey or Steel | 20 |
| Bookmaker? | 10 |
| Blogger, for one | 16 |
| Blog contributor | 16 |
| English student's aim | 25 |
| Compose the appropriate ceremony? | 33 |
| Neil | 4 |
| Recent strikers who literally account for today's missing theme letters | 75 |
| Novelists | 9 |
| King, London and Tan | 20 |
| Block that torments authors | 27 |
| Author's bane | 17 |
| Novelist's frustration | 26 |
| Plotting problem, perhaps | 25 |
| Obstacle for an author | 22 |
| King's annoyance | 20 |
| Bane to an author | 17 |
| Author's hangout? | 21 |
| Author's hang-up | 20 |
| Press censorship? | 17 |
| Stomach ache for Poe | 20 |
| Book signer's hazard | 24 |
| Overcomes a block | 17 |
| Corresponds, in a way | 21 |
| What a lyricist does | 20 |
| Puts pen to paper | 17 |
| Composes a billet-doux | 22 |
| Considers important | 19 |
| Votes for one not on the ballot | 31 |
| Makes entries in travel diary? | 30 |
| Keeps a travel log? | 19 |
| E-mails, e.g. | 13 |
| Drops a note | 12 |
| Contacts via a letter | 21 |
| After "The," title of this puzzle | 43 |
| Records in detail | 17 |
| Prepares for editing | 20 |
| Email, say | 10 |
| Newspaper report | 16 |