| Authoritative statement | 23 |
| Authoritative reference book | 28 |
| Authoritative reference | 23 |
| Authoritative pronouncements | 28 |
| Authoritative pronouncement | 27 |
| Authoritative proclamations | 27 |
| Authoritative proclamation | 26 |
| Authoritative order writer | 26 |
| Authoritative imposition | 24 |
| Authoritative doctrine | 22 |
| Authoritative comments | 22 |
| Authoritative assurances | 24 |
| Authoritative assertions | 24 |
| Authoritative assertion | 23 |
| Authoritarian's words | 25 |
| Authoritarian Spanish leader | 28 |
| Authoritarian governments | 25 |
| Authoritarian follower | 22 |
| Authorial abolitionist | 22 |
| Author/screenwriter Ben | 23 |
| Author/media observer Michael | 29 |
| Author/journalist Sheehy | 24 |
| Author/journalist Fallaci | 25 |
| Author/illustrator Maurice | 26 |
| Author/director Ephron | 22 |
| Author/architect Buzzi | 22 |
| Author-turned-coroner? | 22 |
| Author-subject of epitaph | 25 |
| Author-scenarist James ___ | 26 |
| Author-photographer Barlett | 27 |
| Author-philosopher Sontag | 25 |
| Author-paid publishers | 22 |
| Author-newscaster Newman | 24 |
| Author-movie critic James | 25 |
| Author-journalist Goodman | 25 |
| Author-illustrator Maurice | 26 |
| Author-educator Angelo ___ | 26 |
| Author-columnist Joseph | 23 |
| Author, 1956 award winner | 25 |
| Author, 1955 award winner | 25 |
| Author, 1953 award winner | 25 |
| Author" "Jaffe | 24 |
| Author's supply: Abbr. | 26 |
| Author's supply (abbr.) | 27 |
| Author's sign-off? | 22 |
| Author's representative | 27 |
| Author's pseudonym | 22 |
| Author's output: Abbr. | 26 |
| Author's notebook items | 27 |
| Author's negotiator | 23 |
| Author's last word? | 23 |
| Author's last word | 22 |
| Author's kiss of death | 26 |
| Author's inspiration | 24 |
| Author's explanation | 24 |
| Author's encore: Abbr. | 26 |
| Author's chief work | 23 |
| Author's assistant | 22 |
| Author's antique, perhaps | 29 |
| Author's acknowledgement | 28 |
| Author! Author! actress | 27 |
| Author _____ Chandler Harris | 28 |
| Author _____ Alexander | 22 |
| Author ____ Ingalls Wilder | 26 |
| Author ___-Michel Kpomassie | 27 |
| Author ___ Virginia Woolf | 25 |
| Author ___ Stanley Gardner | 26 |
| Author ___ Rogers St. Johns | 27 |
| Author ___ Neale Hurston | 24 |
| Author ___ Maria Remarque | 25 |
| Author ___ Luis Borges | 22 |
| Author ___ Louis Stevenson | 26 |
| Author ___ Ingalls Wilder | 25 |
| Author ___ Easton Ellis | 23 |
| Author ___ Christian Andersen | 29 |
| Author ___ Bashevis Singer | 26 |
| Author __ Stanley Gardner | 25 |
| Author __ Rogers St. Johns | 26 |
| Author __ Neale Hurston | 23 |
| Author __ Maria Remarque | 24 |
| Author __ Louis Stevenson | 25 |
| Author __ Easton Ellis | 22 |
| Author __ de Saint-Exupéry | 29 |
| Author __ Christian Andersen | 28 |
| Author Zora _____ Hurston | 25 |
| Author Zora ___ Hurston | 23 |
| Author Zora __ Hurston | 22 |
| Author Zora -- Hurston | 22 |
| Author Wylie and soprano Ross | 29 |
| Author Wren's family name | 29 |
| Author Wolfert or Levin | 23 |
| Author with the pen name Saki | 29 |
| Author Willa and family | 23 |
| Author Wilfrid and family | 25 |
| Author who wrote on Friday | 26 |
| Author who worked on Friday? | 28 |
| Author who went through Hell | 28 |
| Author who is on the money? | 27 |
| Author who inspired Verne | 25 |
| Author who influenced Verne | 27 |