| Writer Wolfert | 14 |
| Writer Wolfe | 12 |
| Writer with the pen name Saki | 29 |
| Writer with the most Oscar nominations | 38 |
| Writer with the most combined Tony and Oscar nominations | 56 |
| Writer with morals | 18 |
| Writer with ink | 15 |
| Writer with an award named for him | 34 |
| Writer with an award named after him | 36 |
| Writer with a well | 18 |
| Writer with a twist | 19 |
| Writer with a reservoir | 23 |
| Writer with a Pulitzer and an Oscar | 35 |
| Writer with a point? | 20 |
| Writer Wister or actor Wilson | 29 |
| Writer Wister | 13 |
| Writer Willy who popularized spaceflight | 40 |
| Writer Williams | 15 |
| Writer William, Stephen or Laura | 32 |
| Writer William Gilmore ___: 1806–70 | 42 |
| Writer William Dean ___ | 23 |
| Writer William Carlos | 21 |
| Writer William | 14 |
| Writer Wilkinson of The New Yorker | 34 |
| Writer Wilder | 13 |
| Writer Wilde | 12 |
| Writer Wiesel | 13 |
| Writer whose work was Shakespeare's primary source for "Julius Caesar" | 84 |
| Writer whose work describes him to a T | 38 |
| Writer whose words are twisted? | 31 |
| Writer whose stories inspired "Guys and Dolls" | 56 |
| Writer whose Pulitzer for "A Death in the Family" was posthumous | 74 |
| Writer whose pen name was Jeremy Lord | 37 |
| Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera | 73 |
| Writer whose first book, 1846, sold only two copies | 51 |
| Writer who's in the minority | 32 |
| Writer who's always seeing things? | 38 |
| Writer who wrote "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" | 84 |
| Writer who wrote "A bear, however hard he tries, / Grows tubby without exercise" | 90 |
| Writer who worked on Friday? | 28 |
| Writer who went to hell? | 24 |
| Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle | 79 |
| Writer who was once a jockey | 28 |
| Writer who was fond of a pond | 29 |
| Writer who was a source for Verdi's "Rigoletto" | 61 |
| Writer who said, "I am not young enough to know everything" | 69 |
| Writer who said "What I cannot love, I overlook" | 58 |
| Writer who said "Satire is what closes Saturday night" | 64 |
| Writer who said "I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander" | 78 |
| Writer who said "All of life is a foreign country" | 60 |
| Writer who said "All literature is gossip" | 52 |
| Writer who popularized the saying "To err is human, to forgive divine" | 80 |
| Writer who popularized limericks | 32 |
| Writer who married the same man twice, in 1937 and 1945 | 55 |
| Writer who inspired Faulkner | 28 |
| Writer who inspired boys | 24 |
| Writer who inspired "Aïda" | 39 |
| Writer who held 14 honorary doctorates | 38 |
| Writer who had H.G. Wells for a schoolteacher | 45 |
| Writer who enjoys carpentry? | 28 |
| Writer who doesn't need an agent | 36 |
| Writer who died about an hour before JFK did | 44 |
| Writer who created the writer Gideon Zadok | 42 |
| Writer who created the character Vivian Darkbloom | 49 |
| Writer who created Shrek | 24 |
| Writer who created Pern | 23 |
| Writer who created Earthsea | 27 |
| Writer who coined the word "robot" | 44 |
| Writer who coined the word "nerd" | 43 |
| Writer who coined the word "booboisie" | 48 |
| Writer who coined the phrase "categorical imperative" | 63 |
| Writer who coined "robot" | 35 |
| Writer who co-founded Random House | 34 |
| Writer who aptly died in the month of March | 43 |
| Writer who appeared in a 2004 "Gilmore Girls" episode | 63 |
| Writer who Ali G. mistook for Clinton's vice president in an interview | 74 |
| Writer Wharton | 14 |
| Writer Welty | 12 |
| Writer Weldon | 13 |
| Writer Weingarten | 17 |
| Writer Waugh | 12 |
| Writer Washington | 17 |
| Writer Walter | 13 |
| Writer Waltari | 14 |
| Writer Walpole | 14 |
| Writer Wallace | 14 |
| Writer Walker and others | 24 |
| Writer Walker | 13 |
| Writer W.E.B. | 13 |
| Writer Vonnegut | 15 |
| Writer Vidal | 12 |
| Writer Victor's family | 26 |
| Writer Victor | 13 |
| Writer Van Loon | 15 |
| Writer Uris | 11 |
| Writer Upton | 12 |
| Writer unknown | 14 |
| Writer Umberto ___ | 18 |
| Writer Umberto or system header | 31 |
| Writer Umberto | 14 |